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Or they might go on, not trying to cross the Libyan desert in the direction of Assouan, as Stanton had hoped to do, but skirting southward by a longer route where the desert was charted and oases existed. After a journey of seventy or eighty days they might hope to find their way through Kordofan to Omdurman, and then across the Nile to civilized Khartoum.
Had she not, morning after morning, gazed out through the square eyelet to catch a glimpse of him as he came from his tent, dressed in his snowy white linen tunic, and with countless strings of coloured beads twisted round the firm column of his throat and hanging from his arms? Melun, the necklace-seller of Assouan!
The voice had a curious far-away sound. "You shall go beyond Assouan," said Dicky. "To to Gordon?" Heatherby's voice was husky and indistinct. "Yes, here's Fielding; he'll give you the tip. Sit down." Dicky gently forced him down into a chair.
"Thee has made it worth while living on," he added. She was gaining control of herself also. "I said that I would come when I was needed," she answered less, tremblingly. "Thee came alone?" he asked gently. "From Assouan, yes," she said in a voice still unsteady. "I was riding out to be by myself, and then I saw you coming, and I rode on.
"I am astonished that you should be so utterly indifferent to the etiquette of your own profession," she added. "I will make that all right with Doctor Hartley when I get to Assouan." "There will be no need for that." "Do you mean that you are going to refuse absolutely to allow me to see your husband?" "I do. In any case, you could not see him to-night, as he is asleep " She stopped.
Charming coloured postcards, taken before the submerging of the island and the sanctuary, are on sale in all the bookshops along the quay. Oh! this quay of Assouan, already so British in its orderliness, its method! Nothing better cared for, nothing more altogether charming could be conceived.
True, Donovan Pasha had steadily worked for the reduction of the corvee, and had, in the name of the Khedive, steadily reduced private corvee, but he had never set his face against slavery, save to see that no slave-dealing was permitted below Assouan. Yet, with her own eyes she had seen Abyssinian slaves sold in the market-place of Assiout.
Here, some two miles away from cool Assouan, lying out in the desert, was the Bishâreen encampment, and the last small tent of the long line had its door open, and the flap of the awning loose, with which the morning wind stopped to play.
To Trench from time to time there came money from his friends, brought secretly into the prison by a native who had come up from Assouan or Suakin; but there were long periods during which no help came to him, and he lived upon the charity of the Greeks who had sworn conversion to the Mahdist faith, or starved with such patience as he could.
As it happened, the duchess had written, but in a moment of most unusual aberration had put Khartoum on the envelope instead of Assouan, so that it was months, long after the end of this story, that the letter reached him. Strange is it how the lives of men are wrecked or made through the most trivial happenings. The grain of dust in the eye; the mudbank in the river; the hen in the road!
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