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Updated: May 9, 2025
So here I am." "Yes, and you ought to be in jail," says Sadie emphatic. "But, since you're not, what do you propose doing next?" "I return day after to-morrow," says Don Carlos, "and if the lady who is my wife so wills it she shall go with me." "Oh, shall she!" says Sadie sarcastic. "Where to, pray?" "To El Kurfah," says he. "And just where," says Sadie, "is that?"
Early in the morning, when it is cool, I shall ride out into the sandhills with Carlos. He is going to teach me how to shoot a lion." She was chatterin' along like a schoolgirl, and when the boat pulls out of the slip she waves jaunty to us. Don Carlos, leanin' over the rail alongside of her, gazes at her sort of admirin'. "El Kurfah, eh?" says I to Sadie.
"Neither does Hamid," says Pasha; "but he says we ought to have one standing in front of the royal palace to impress the hill tribesmen when they come in. Do you go back to El Kurfah with me, Mrs. Vogel?" "Yes," says Lindy, rollin' up her apron. "But, Lindy!" gasps Sadie. "To such a place, with such a man!" "He is my husband, you know," says she.
He's one of the best camel drivers in the place, Batime. And I have learned to salaam and say 'Allah il Allah. Everyone must do that there. And in our garden are dates and oranges growing. Only fancy! There will be five slaves to wait on me, and when we go to the palace I shall wear gold bracelets on my ankles. Won't that seem odd? It's rather warm in El Kurfah, you know; but I sha'n't mind.
"In El Kurfah," breaks in Don Carlos, bowin' dignified, "I am Pasha Dar Bunda, Minister of Foreign Affairs and chief business agent to Hamid-al-Illa; who, as you may know, is one of the half-dozen rulers claiming to be Emperor of the Desert. Frankly, I admit he has no right to such a title; but neither has any of the others.
And, say, this slim, graceful party in the snappy gray travelin' dress, with the smart lid and all the gray veils on, looks about as much like the Lindy we'd known as a hard-boiled egg looks like a frosted cake. Lindy has bloomed out. "And when we get to El Kurfah guess what Carlos is going to give me!" she confides to Sadie. "A riding camel and Batime.
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