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Bedr el Gemaly he calls himself Armenian Mussulman, a sickening combination, and an awful brute to look at said your messenger was taken suddenly ill; pretends to be a dragoman." "What is he like?" "Rather like a partially decayed but decently dressed goat." "Don't rot. This may be serious." I described Bedr el Gemaly as best I could, feature by feature.
Of course, you understand that it could be used only in an extreme case." A curtained doorway led out from the diwaan into a small anteroom, and there, on the floor, sat Bedr el Gemaly, the picture of dejection. Had I raised my voice in the next room, he would perhaps have ventured in to see what I could do to help him; for now, at sight of me, he scrambled up in shamefaced eagerness.
The one remaining incident of note was the arrival on the scene, as we left it, of another caravan a small caravan consisting of two Europeans a few laden camels, and camel-boys marshalled by one dragoman. The dragoman was Bedr el Gemaly, and he smiled at us as affectionately as though we had not driven him from us in disgrace.
All I had to tell was the brief story of the girls' disappearance with Bedr el Gemaly, and Fenton's following them into space; then, how word had come after fourteen hours. "The House of the Crocodile," Jarvis Pasha said, when he had taken and read the letter. "H'm! Do you know anything about that house?" "I know the old stories connected with it," I answered.
P. S. Kindly acknowledge receipt of this letter in care of Bedr el Gemaly whose address you have at Cairo. Not hearing from you, we shall try to communicate this news in some other way. The present method has occurred to us, as you may find it useful to know the state of affairs without delay. "Oh, Biddy, do you find it useful?" I asked. She held out her hands to me.
"My name is Bedr el Gemaly," he introduced himself. "I have a letter for milord." "Who gave it to you?" I challenged him. The ingratiating smile seemed to flicker like a candle flame in a sudden puff of wind. "A friend of my, a dragoman. He could not come to bring it. So he give it to me. The gentleman's name was Fenton. My friend, he was sent from him at Cairo."
Bedr el Gemaly, now one of the great unemployed, had been seen near the hospital where the injured man lay; but he had taken the alarm and departed without inquiring for the invalid's health; or else his being in that neighbourhood was a coincidence. The name of the man knifed was Burke, and London was given as his address.
So does Monny. As for Rachel Guest but she is in another part of my story. Yet no, come to think of it, I'll bring her in now, because if it weren't for developments concerning that young woman, I might be able to wait one more day without begging you to come to us. She is taking Monny away from me; and something odd is going on, I can't make out what. Anyhow, that horrid Bedr el Gemaly is in it.
He hasn't got rid of Bedr el Gemaly; but he would have done so, I'm sure, if it hadn't been for an unexpected turn of the wheel, by the hand of Fate in the person of Rachel Guest. Her hand is never off the wheel just now! The few days since you have been away have brought out the true inwardness of her. Felis Domestica with very little Domestica!
This conduct suggested an honest desire to be a good dragoman. Yet well, I resolved not to let the gimlets rust until Bedr el Gemaly had been got rid of. If Mrs. East had really promised him a permanent engagement, she could salve his disappointment by giving him a day's pay. I would take the responsibility of sending him about his business. Without further parley I opened the letter.
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