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The women, who had been quiet to hear him, burst forth again into a paroxysm of chatter. Irena looked utterly indifferent and walked feebly. The little procession disappeared in the moonlight accompanied by the crowd. "She has stabbed Hadj," Domini said. "Batouch will be glad." She did not feel as if she were sorry. Indeed, she thought she was glad too.
As she made her way slowly through the press, pioneered by Batouch, who forced a path with great play of his huge shoulders and mighty arms, she was surprised to find how much at home she felt in the midst of these fierce and uncivilised-looking people. She had no sense of shrinking from their contact, no feeling of personal disgust at their touch.
"Madame is brave as the panther in the forests of the Djurdjurah." "And you, Batouch? Aren't you brave?" "Madame, I am afraid of nothing." He did not say it boastfully, like Hadj, but calmly, almost loftily. "Well, we are neither of us afraid. Let us ride out on the Tombouctou road and see the moon rise. I'll go and put on my habit." "Madame should take her revolver." "Of course.
She was going away to the hotel door, but she stopped. "My name is Domini Enfilden," she said in English. The man stood in the road looking at her. She waited. She expected him to tell her his name. There was a silence. At last he said hesitatingly, in English with a very slight foreign accent: "My name is Boris Boris Androvsky." "Batouch told me you were English," she said.
But the stranger did not stop. He only glanced swiftly back over his shoulder once, and then continued on his way. "What a funny man that is!" said Batouch. "What does he want to do?" Domini did not answer him, for the priest was just passing them, and she saw the church to the left among the trees. It was a plain, unpretending building, with a white wooden door set in an arch.
His appearance and manner were so unusual that it was impossible not to notice him. "There is the hotel, Madame!" said Batouch. Domini saw it standing at right angles to the church, facing the gardens. A little way back from the church was the priest's house, a white building shaded by date palms and pepper trees.
"If you will allow me." "When?" "I " she heard the odd, upward grating in his voice which she remembered so well. "May I come now if you are riding to the tents?" "Please do." "I will explain to the marabout and follow you." "But the way? Shall Batouch ?" "No, it is not necessary." She rode away. When she reached the camp she found that Androvsky had not yet returned, and she was glad.
Monsieur has gone with the Pere Beret. I shall take a ride, just a short ride round the camp over there in at the city gate, through the market-place, and home. You will come with me." Batouch threw away his cigarette with energy. Poet though he was, all the Arab blood in him responded to the thought of a gallop over the sands. Within a few minutes they were off.
She began to feel a sort of terror mingled with the most extraordinary attraction she had ever known. Hadj crouched right back against the wall. The voice of the Jewess ceased in a shout. The hautboys stopped playing. Only the tomtoms roared. "Hadj can be happy now," observed Batouch in a voice of almost satisfaction, "for Irena is going to dance. Look!
She saw them from a distance coming through the darkness with blazing torches in their hands. When they came to her she said: "Batouch, I want you to order dinner in camp for the soldiers." A broad and radiant smile irradiated the blunt Breton features of Marelle. "And Monsieur the officer will dine with me and Monsieur. Give us all you can. Perhaps there will be some gazelle."
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