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So take patience, sweetheart. What are two weeks, or at most three and then. . . ." "But I shall die before then!" cried Paula. "The Nabathaean, you say, is here and willing to go." "Yes, Mistress." "Then we will secure him," said Paula resolutely. Perpetua, however, who must have discussed the matter fully with her fellow-countryman, shook her head mournfully and said: "He asks too much for us!"
She dared neither signal nor call to him; but when the faithful soul had reached open water he looked back at her window, recognized her in her white morning dress and flourished the oar high in the air. This could only mean that he had fulfilled his commission and sold her jewel. Now he was going to the other side to engage the Nabathaean.
"Yes, the little Nabathaean is come," replied her nurse with some hesitation, "and he indeed but for God's sake, child, form no vain hopes! Hiram came to me soon after sun-down. . ." "Betta!" screamed the girl, clinging to her nurse's arm. "What has he heard, what news does he bring?" "Nothing, nothing! How you rush at conclusions! What he found out is next to nothing.
How could you have the heart to deprive me of the hope on which my poor heart still feeds? But I will not be robbed of it. Your Paulus of Sinai is my lost father. I feel it, I know it! If I had not sold my pearls, the Nabathaean. . . . But as it is. When can you start, my good Hiram?" "Not before a fort a fortnight at at at soonest," said the man.
He told her that the Nabathaean who had brought the rumor that had excited her hopes, was not unwilling to follow up the trace he had found, but he would not wait beyond noon the next day and had tried to bid for high terms. "He shall have them as much as he wants!" cried Paula. But Hiram entreated her, more by looks and vague cries than by articulate words, not to hope for too much.
The physician smiled, as though something had happened just as he expected; after a moment's reflection he said: "And where can the Nabathaean find you, if indeed he discovers your father in the hermit of Sinai?" The question startled and surprised Paula, and Philippus now adduced every argument to convince her that it was necessary that she should remain in the City of the Pyramids.
What are two weeks, or at most three and then...." "But I shall die before then!" cried Paula. "The Nabathaean, you say, is here and willing to go." "Yes, Mistress." "Then we will secure him," said Paula resolutely. Perpetua, however, who must have discussed the matter fully with her fellow-countryman, shook her head mournfully and said: "He asks too much for us!"
"Yes, the little Nabathaean is come," replied her nurse with some hesitation, "and he indeed but for God's sake, child, form no vain hopes! Hiram came to me soon after sun-down..." "Betta!" screamed the girl, clinging to her nurse's arm. "What has he heard, what news does he bring?" "Nothing, nothing! How you rush at conclusions! What he found out is next to nothing.
Here they spent a "silly fortnight, searching for gold," which refused to answer even to the diving rod. They saw catacombs the Tombs of the Kings some of which were scrawled with graffiti, laboured perhaps by some idle Nabathaean boy in the time of Christ. They found remains of furnaces, picked up some coins, and saw undoubted evidences of ancient opulence. That was all.
She dared neither signal nor call to him; but when the faithful soul had reached open water he looked back at her window, recognized her in her white morning dress and flourished the oar high in the air. This could only mean that he had fulfilled his commission and sold her jewel. Now he was going to the other side to engage the Nabathaean.
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