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Updated: June 24, 2025
The shadows were growing to the westward. Everybody was silent, and the shifting group of armed men seemed to have drifted closer. Immada, drawing the end of a scarf across her face, confronted the advance with only one eye exposed. On the flank of the armed men Sentot was performing a slow dance but he, too, seemed to have gone dumb.
It was a great shock to Hassim, but the sort of half smile with which he had been listening to Jaffir never altered its character. It was the Princess Immada who cried out in distress and wrung her hands. A deep silence fell.
Get out of the way, and let the gentlemen have the first chance of a row." Then addressing Lingard, he drawled in his old way: "That crazy mate of yours has sent your boat back, with a couple of visitors in her, too." Before he apprehended plainly the meaning of these words, Lingard caught sight of two heads rising above the rail, the head of Hassim and the head of Immada.
Here d'Alcacer lost himself again in the recollection of Mrs. Travers and Immada looking at each other the beginning and the end, the flower and the leaf, the phrase and the cry. Mr. Travers' voice went on dogmatic and obstinate for a long time. The end came with a certain vehemence.
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