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Updated: May 24, 2025
"El Bakhat will do his best to take them where they wish to go." "Are you thinking of travelling with all this train?" Rupert asked Ben Ibyn. "No, there is no occasion to do so. I have friends at a village on the Nile, and there my followers and their camels will remain, and El Bakhat's wife and child will remain with them also.
What reason, then, can you possibly have in refusing to tell me the name of the commander who has won for himself such credit and glory?" Gervaise saw that Ben Ibyn was seriously annoyed at what he deemed his unaccountable obstinacy.
"I would not have told you the story at all, Ben Ibyn, had I supposed you would have cared to inquire into the matter. Of course, I will tell you the name if you insist upon it, but I would much rather you did not ask." "But why?" the merchant asked, in surprise.
You can tell him that this is the reason which, most of all, weighs with me. Do not, however, I pray you, let the sultan know that I have refused to be ransomed, for he might think I was meditating an escape, and would order extra precautions to be taken to prevent my doing so. Will you also see Ben Ibyn, and thank him from me for having written to Suleiman Ali on my behalf?"
He and Edgar soon lay down and were fast asleep, but the two Arabs talked together for a long time before they followed their example. At daybreak the party were on their feet. "We talked it over last night," Ben Ibyn said; "and we both think that it were best not to proceed.
Not one of the fleet escaped." Exclamations of surprise broke from Ben Ibyn, his wife, and daughters. "I am astonished, indeed," the merchant said.
He was no longer obliged to walk with the gang to and from the palace, and was at last granted permission to go into the town for an hour or two after his work was over, instead of returning direct to the prison. The first time this permission was given to him he placed himself on the road by which Ben Ibyn would leave the town, choosing a quiet spot where the meeting would not be observed.
"Now we will be off again," Rupert said, and in a minute they had mounted and continued their flight. "There is no fear of the footmen overtaking us," Ben Ibyn remarked. "Our camels are not like yours, but they can trot at a good pace for forty miles. It is fortunate we had them, for they would soon have been up to them had we only had common camels.
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