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That is a lie. The injury was done by the blade of a spear or some weapon of the kind." "Are you sure?" "Yes." Calder bent down suddenly towards the Arab on the angareb. Although he never moved, the man was conscious. Calder had been looking steadily at him, and he saw that his eyes followed the spoken words. "You understand English?" said Calder.
He is sorely wounded. "There was a loud cry, and the door opened and a woman ran out. "'Do not touch him, Abdullah exclaimed. 'We will get him down from the horse, but first bring out an angareb. We will lower him down onto that. "The woman went in, and returned with an angareb. It was the usual Soudan bed, of wooden framework, with a hide lashed across it.
There was no opposition to this, and one of the camel-drivers was fetched and sent down to the gate, while Harry lay down with his bandaged arm exposed, on an angareb close to the door, where he lay looking ghastly and feeble by the light of the lamp.
"What, kicked?" "No," said the sufferer, perfectly calm now. "I broke it myself." A deep silence fell upon the group, save that the old Sheikh uttered a low groan, and then the doctor was himself again. This was real real suffering to allay, and a word brought the professor to his side, just as Sam came hurriedly to the inner door, fresh from Frank's angareb. "Hush!
That man lying so quiet beneath the black covering had probably at the beginning suffered nothing more serious than a bruise, which a few simple remedies would have cured within a week. But he had been allowed to lie, even as he lay upon the angareb, at the mercy of the sun and the flies, unwashed, unfed, and with his thirst unslaked.
Calder bent his head downwards and stared into the darkness for a little while without speaking. "I believe the angareb is there," he said at length. "I believe it is." Followed by the German, he hurried down the stairway to the lower deck of the steamer and went to the side. He could make certain now.
In the time of the Twelfth Dynasty an ordinary house contained no bedsteads, but low frameworks like the Nubian angareb; or mats rolled up by day on which the owners lay down at night in their clothes, pillowing their heads on earthenware, stone, or wooden head-rests.
The narrow meagre strip of green close by the water's edge upon each bank was the only response which the Soudan made to Spring and Summer and the beneficent rain. A callous country inhabited by a callous people. Calder looked downwards again to the angareb upon the barge's deck and the figure lying upon it. Whether it was man or woman he could not tell.
And, while he ate, Nejoumi questioned him, in the silkiest voice, about the fortifications of Cairo and the strength of the garrison at Assouan, and the rumours of dissension between the Khedive and the Sirdar. But to each question Feversham replied: "How should a Greek know of these matters?" Nejoumi rose from his angareb and roughly gave an order.
Then his eyes began to adapt themselves to the gloom, and he distinguished a tall, bearded man, who sat upon an angareb, the native bedstead of the Soudan, and two others, who squatted beside him on the ground. The man on the angareb was the Emir. "You are a spy of the Government from Wadi Halfa," he said.
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