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Updated: May 12, 2025
That was no false move. It was so nearly a checkmate that de Crespigny went to the sideboard for the silver box of cigarettes, to offer her one and gain time for thought. Ever since the days of Ruth, and no doubt long before that, it has been the first law of the desert that man or woman claiming protection can no longer be treated as an enemy.
Beatrice would have none of her money, but told her she might use the shop like any other customer, which of course Fanny did. Mrs. Peachey, meanwhile, kept declaring to both her sisters that they must not expect to live henceforth in De Crespigny Park on the old nominal terms.
Ere the words were past the other's lips he was beside him, his face nigh touching, and his breath hot upon his cheeks. 'I think, young sir, quoth he softly, looking into the other's eyes, 'that now that I am nearer you will very clearly see that the glove is not an archer's glove. 'Perchance not, said the Sieur de Crespigny with a twitching lip.
The elder desired more comfort and more independence than De Crespigny Park could afford her; the younger desired a great many things, and flattered herself that a very simple step would put her in possession of them. The master of the house no longer took any interest in the fortunes of his sisters-in-law.
Then her expression changed slowly to excitement, followed by a look of baffling wisdom, as much as to say she knew something and would not tell. I don't think it was his name that startled her; that sounded Arabic enough. "What business has he at Petra?" she asked. De Crespigny let Grim answer that conundrum.
"And, tell me now, do you teach them to be good daughters and wives and mothers?" he asked, with his air of convincing simplicity. "Do you teach them their duties to their husbands and children, ma'am, may I ask?" Miss de Crespigny positively gasped. There was an indelicacy about the General's speech, to her manner of thinking.
"Steady-going old party," said de Crespigny. Why, have you run foul of him?" "He has offered me ten thousand piastres to poison Ali Higg" "Show me the money!" laughed de Crespigny. "He was hardly as previous as that. His head wife bribed these kids to bring me to the house, and the old boy met me in the wool-store. Said he'd been told I was going to Petra.
The instant de Crespigny set the bottle on the table the old rascal tipped the lot into a tumbler and drank it off. "It is good that the Koran says nothing against such stuff as this," he said, blinking as he set the glass down. "I have never tasted wine," he added righteously. "Are the camels ready?" asked Grim. "Surely." "What sort are they?
I expect you have to leave off pretending and really be an Indian to find out that; otherwise your liking for the fellow himself offsets reason. No white man could have helped liking young de Crespigny. He came in after a minute perfectly self-possessed, leading a young woman who took your breath away.
She was obviously not in the least afraid of us. "You are from El-Maan?" asked de Crespigny, and she nodded. "Did you come all this way alone?" "No woman travels the desert alone." "Tell me how you got here." "You know how I got here. I came with a caravan that carried wheat the wife of the sheikh of the caravan consenting."
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