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That evening, just before sunset he went on board the Fatma as proprietor. He had been bargaining steadily for some hours, and felt weary, though triumphant, as he stood upon the upper deck, with Hassan in attendance, while the crew poled off from the bank into the golden river.
There was a telegram, too, which must be sent to Lieutenant Sutch at Suakin. He mounted his camel and rode slowly with Abou Fatma westwards towards Wadi Halfa. But the sense of loss did not pass from him that day, nor his anger at the act of folly which had brought about his downfall. The wooded slopes of Ramelton were very visible to him across the shimmer of the desert air.
All that night they rode through halfa grass and mimosa trees and went but slowly, but they came about sunrise on to flat bare ground broken with small hillocks. "Are the Effendi tired?" asked Abou Fatma. "Will they stop and eat? There is food upon the saddle of each camel." "No; we can eat as we go."
"I am to meet Moussa Fedil again on the third morning from now, in the market-place of Berber. Give me a token which I may carry back, so that he may know I have fulfilled the charge and reward me." Abou Fatma took his knife from the small of his back, and picking up a stick from the ground, notched it thrice at each end.
"The Belle Fatma, the most beautiful woman of Africa. She receives every " "Pardon me! One moment! Is this lady " Mr. Greyne paused. "Sir?" said Alphonso, settling his Spanish neck-tie, and gazing steadily towards Marseilles. "Is this lady well, sinful?" Alphonso threw up his hands with a wild Asiatic gesture. "Sinful! La Belle Fatma!
On the other hand, he had nothing to complain of, except the monotony and uncertainty of his position. Fatma kept him well supplied with food; and, from the gossip of the slaves who brought this to him, he learnt how matters were progressing.
"God be thanked!" said Abou Fatma. "I have good news for you, and bad news too. The boat is ready, our friends are waiting for us, camels are prepared for you on the caravan track by the river-bank to Abu Hamed. But your escape is known, and the roads and the ferries are closely watched. Before sunrise we must have struck inland from the eastern bank of the Nile."
In six months, in a year at the latest, he will be back in Omdurman." "Very likely," said Trench. "He will ask for another letter, so that he may receive more money, and again he will say that in six months or a year he will be back in Omdurman. I know these people." "You do not know Abou Fatma. He was Gordon's servant over there before Khartum fell; he has been mine since.
Meanwhile the saddles were unfastened and removed from the camels Trench and his companion had ridden out of Omdurman. "They are good camels?" asked Feversham, as he helped to fix the saddles upon the fresh ones. "Of the Anafi breed," answered Abou Fatma. "Quick! Quick!" and he looked anxiously to the east and listened. "The arms?" said Trench. "You have them?
At times, some men tilling a scanty patch of sorghum would send the fugitives' hearts leaping in their throats, and they must make a wide detour; or again a caravan would be sighted in the far distance by the keen eyes of Abou Fatma, and they made their camels kneel and lay crouched behind a rock, with their loaded rifles in their hands.
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