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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Read this," he added, and put a letter from Nahoum into Ebn Ezra's hand. Lacey reverently covered Achmet's face. "Say, he got what he wanted," he said again. It was many a day since the Duchess of Snowdon had seen a sunrise, and the one on which she now gazed from the deck of the dahabieh Nefert, filled her with a strange new sense of discovery and revelation.
His first messengers to us were killed, and that is why the news of the relief came so late. But all is well at last. I have come to say so to Lady Eglington even before I went to the Effendina." He made a gesture towards a huge and gaily-caparisoned dahabieh not far away. "Kaid was right about coming here. His health is better. He never doubted Claridge Pasha's return; it was une idee fixe.
The Peterkin family had reached Cairo again, at least, its scattered remnant was there, and they were now to consider what next. Mrs. Peterkin would like to spend her life in the dahabieh, though she could not pronounce its name, and she still felt the strangeness of the scenes about her.
She relapsed into reverie, an uncommon experience for her; and her mind floated indefinitely from one thing to another, while she was half conscious of the smell of coffee permeating the air, and of the low resonant notes of the Nubian boys, as, with locked shoulders, they scrubbed the decks of a dahabieh near by with hempshod feet.
"Yes, Allah is good, we are now out of danger and have no more to fear." The rifles were collected and put away, and the dahabîeh resumed its calm appearance as it glided lazily onwards. The following morning it entered the Mahmoudieh Canal, which runs direct to Alexandria.
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