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Updated: June 3, 2025
As he reached the group of ladies to whom the boatswain had spoken, his gaze rested on one a sunny-haired young woman with the blue of the sea in her eyes who had arisen at his approach. He started, turned aside as if to avoid her, and raising his hand in an embarrassed half-salute, passed on.
An expression of mingled surprise and terror had come to her pretty, but rather weak face; and without acknowledging his half-salute, she had caught up a little child from the deck behind her, and turning into the saloon door, hurried to the library, where she sank into a chair beside a military-looking gentleman, who glanced up from a book and remarked: "Seen the sea-serpent, Myra, or the Flying Dutchman?
Both guards gave him a half-salute, the courteous gesture he had seen often in Cairo. He bowed and walked toward the stairs. Not until he was outside did he breathe freely. The cat was a comforting weight in his pocket as he got into Hassan's car. He wondered what the museum officials would think about the kitten.
"I'll wager I can outrun you, outshoot you, outride you, throw you at wrestle, cast the knife or hatchet truer than can you, catch more fish than you and bigger ones at that!" With an impatient gesture, peculiarly graceful, like the half-salute of a friendly swordsman ere you draw and stand on guard: "Read the forest with me.
Rick saw a few tourists, but the tourist season was still weeks ahead and most of the people were Egyptian. A little Egyptian boy with a dirty face called, "Yonkees! 'Ello!" The boys returned his cheerful grin. "This is a good-natured crowd," Rick commented. Many of the dark, Semitic faces greeted them with cordial smiles and a half-salute of welcome. "Friendly people," Scotty agreed.
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