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Updated: June 3, 2025
Under what conditions had they met before she had seen him about the farm of Bwana? She ran over in her mind all the few white men she ever had known. There were some who had come to her father's douar in the jungle. Few it is true, but there had been some. Ah, now she had it! She had seen him there! She almost seized upon his identity and then in an instant, it had slipped from her again.
While they were mounting in the DOUAR of Kadour ben Saden the morning of their departure, the girl came to bid farewell to Tarzan. "I have prayed that you would remain with us," she said simply, as he leaned from his saddle to clasp her hand in farewell, "and now I shall pray that you will return."
That was a noisy night: half the douar was apparently being entertained in the servants' tent, which for safety was pitched all too close to our own, and they talked far on into the small hours in mumbling undertones, to the sound of which we finally slept, nor waked till a glorious dawn in a cloudless sky roused us at five o'clock.
It was like the sun opening a flower bud. When he was away I felt hardly alive. When he came back from Spain to our house or to our tent in the douar I lived lived every minute! It was three years ago, when I was thirteen, that he began to love me as a woman. I shall never forget the day he told me! I was not hadjaba yet. Do you know what that means?
A long string of camels kept pace with us for a time on a parallel trail; then a douar came into sight, afterwards two saint-houses and a ruined kasbah. That half of these castles are ruined is not to be wondered at, considering that they are mud-built, and that tribal disputes and invasions are interminable.
They could have slept for hours, twenty-four of them had they been permitted such indulgence. But they were not. As the first streaks of daylight became visible over the eastern horizon, the whole douar was up and doing. The women and children of both hordes were seen flitting like shadows among the tents.
About five o'clock we reached an Arab douar, or village, and decided to camp near it for the night.
You've even been afraid it might be all over." "But something has happened, or they wouldn't have taken her away," Manöel said. "Perhaps she tried to escape," Max suggested. "Would it be harder for her to do that at the douar than here?" "In a way, yes. Here she might be hidden for a while in some house of the village: it's a rabbit warren, as you can see.
"You doubtless heard French spoken at times in your father's douar," suggested My Dear, as the most reasonable explanation. Meriem shook her head.
"But by an hour after dawn you must be gone from my DOUAR. I have little liking for unbelievers, and none at all for a coward." Rokoff would have made some kind of retort, but he checked himself, for he realized that it would require but little excuse for the old man to turn upon him. Together they left the tent.
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