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"Monsieur has not heard of it?" "Yes, I have heard but it can't be. There must have been someone." I looked at the white teeth of the murderer, white as the saltpetre which makes winter in the desert. "I must get back to the Bordj," I said abruptly. "I will accompany monsieur." The old formula, and this time the voice which spoke it sounded natural. We went forward together. I walked very fast.
If that happened, the only way of communication would be by heliograph; and Sabine says that from Touggourt to Tombouctou this chain of towers has been arranged always on elevations, so that signals can be seen across great stretches of desert; and inside the walls of a bordj whenever possible, for defence.
It's a day's journey farther north than the Zaouïa, and I remembered the bordj being kept by two Frenchmen, who would be of use if " He checked himself, not wishing to hint that it might be necessary to guard against treason. "If we had to stop for the night," he amended, "no doubt the bordj would be better kept than some others.
I cannot leave the kitchen, and that brute Abdallah has not laid the table! When I catch him I will wring his neck as if he were a hen." He trotted back to the kitchen, swearing, and an instant later he was visible through the open door, drinking something out of a bottle. Stephen went to the door of the third and last guest-room of the bordj.
To-night there will be a moon." "Paradise!" exclaimed Androvsky. He sprang upon his horse and pulled up the reins. Domini said no more. They had started late. It was night when they reached Ain-la-Hammam. As they drew near Domini looked before her eagerly through the pale gloom that hung over the sand. She saw no village, only a very small grove of palms and near it the outline of a bordj.
"Come, Boris," she said, and her voice held none of the passionate regret that was in her heart, "we mustn't linger, or it will be night before we reach Beni-Mora." "Let it be night," he said. "Dark night!" The horses moved slowly on, descending the hill on which stood the bordj. "Dark dark night!" he said again. She said nothing. They rode into the plain.
Something has made him desperate." "There's a chance for us," said Stephen. "What I believe has happened, is this. They must have stationed a sentinel or two outside the bordj in case of surprise. The raised voices we heard, and the stopping of the work on the roof for a minute, may have meant that a sentinel ran in with news good news for us, bad news for the Arabs."
And then, because she was happy herself, and the future seemed bright, she forgot Maïeddine, and thought only of another. "That must be the bordj of Toudja, at last," Victoria said, looking out between the curtains of her bassour. "Aren't you thankful, Saidee?
As usual in a caravanserai or large bordj, all round the square courtyard were series of rooms: a few along one wall for the accommodation of French officers and rich Arabs, furnished with elementary European comforts; opposite, a dining-room and kitchen; to the left, the quarters of the two landlords and their servants; along the fourth wall, on either side of the great iron gate, sheds for animals, untidily littered with straw and refuse, infested with flies.
Half-an-hour later the one-eyed Arab who kept the Bordj, roused by my beating upon the door with the butt end of my revolver, came with D'oud to ask what was the matter. The door had to be broken in. This took some time.
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