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"There will be an answer, and it must be brought to me quickly, for already I have stopped longer than I expected, and Captain Sabine, who knows I have come to call upon you and fetch a friend, may be anxious." He spoke his last words with a certain emphasis, knowing that Ben Halim would understand the scarcely veiled threat.
Somehow, as he unfolded the story he had heard from the girl on board ship, the scent of orange blossoms, luscious-sweet in this region of gardens, connected itself in his mind with thoughts of the beautiful woman who had married Cassim ben Halim, and disappeared from the world she had known.
Lacey yawned almost ostentatiously. "I guess if he can't save it himself it can't be saved, not even when you reach out the hand of perfect friendship. You've been reaching out for a long time, pasha, and it didn't save the steamer or the cotton-mills; and it didn't save us when we were down by Sobat a while ago, and you sent Halim Bey to teach us to be patient.
Then he said slowly; "It is a grief to deny thee anything, oh Rose, but the secret is not mine to tell, even to thee." "The secret!" she echoed. "Thou hast never called it a secret." "If I did not use that word, did I not give thee to understand the same thing?" "Thou meanest, the secret about Cassim, my sister's husband?" "Cassim ben Halim has ceased to live." Victoria gave a little cry. "Dead!
"Can you tell us of the scandal, or would you rather not talk of the subject?" Stephen hesitated. "Oh, I can tell you, for it would not hurt your feelings. People said Ben Halim flirted too much with his Colonel's beautiful French wife, who died soon afterwards, and her husband killed himself. Ben Halim had not been considered a good officer before.
If I've ever heard anything about Ben Halim, whatever it is has slipped my mind. But I'll do my best to find out something." "Miss Ray believes he was of importance," said Stephen. "She oughtn't to have much trouble getting on to his trail, should you think?" Nevill looked doubtful. "Well, if he'd wanted her on his trail, she'd never have been off it.
Si Maïeddine who had dropped his eyes as she spoke of the fortunate chance which had brought him to the hotel, listened thoughtfully and with keen attention to her story, asking no questions, yet showing his interest so plainly that Victoria was encouraged to go on. "Didst thou ever hear the name of Cassim ben Halim?" she asked. "Yes, I have heard it," the Arab replied.
Now, there's one curious thing about it all which ought to be whispered, for I'm only guessing, and I'm not a good guesser; I guessed too much in Mexico about three railways and two silvermines. The first two days after we came here, everything was all right. Then there came an Egyptian, Halim Bey, with a handful of niggers from Cairo, and letters for Claridge Pasha.
Ben Halim was in the French Army; but he was a Mussulman. Paris and Algiers are a long cry, one from the other if you're an Arab." "Jove! You don't think " "You've spotted it. That's what I do think." "That he shut her up?" "That he forced her to live the life of a Mussulman woman. Why, what else could you expect, when you come to look at it?" "But an American girl "
The Shadow Dance and the Statue Dance which you saw, came out of those stories, and there are more you didn't see, which I do sometimes a butterfly dance, the dance of the wheat, and two of the East, which were in stories she told me after we knew Cassim ben Halim. They are the dance of the smoke wreath, and the dance of the jewel-and-the-rose.
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