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"I do not know his name," answered Abdullah; "he was a camel-driver of the Sahara." "And your mother?" asked the lawyer. "How can one, born as I, know his mother?" replied Abdullah. "And you," said the lawyer, turning to Nicha, "who is your father?" "Ilderhim of El Merb," she answered. "And your mother?" asked the lawyer. "She died before I can remember."
"I am not yet your wife," said the girl. "True," said Abdullah, "and we are making this forced march to learn how I may make you such. Who is your father, beloved?" "Ilderhim," she answered; "but why do you ask? You saw him when we started from El Merb." "Do you love him?" asked Abdullah. "I scarcely know," answered the girl, after a pause. "I have not seen him often. He is constantly from home.
It is called by the Mohammedan priests of Biskra "The Treasury of the Desert." It is called by the French commandant at Biskra "A place to be watched." The only communication between El Merb and Biskra is by camels, and Abdullah was once the chief caravan-master. Abdullah, having felt the humps of his camels, turned to his driver. "We start to-morrow, Ali," he said; "the beasts are fit."
"No," said Abdullah; "it is a question of how I can keep the woman I love, and still keep my commercial integrity. She is consigned to me by her father, to be delivered to Mirza, the mother of the dancers, in Biskra. I am the trusted caravan owner between El Merb and Biskra. In the last ten years I have killed many men who tried to rob my freight of dates, and hides, and gold-dust.
"My pigeons are waiting for me," said the cardinal; and he went away, limping. Far down in the Desert of Sahara is the little oasis of El Merb. It is so small that our crude atlases miss it. It has but one well, and the fertile land is not more than forty rods in diameter. It has a mosque, a bazaar, a slave-market, and a café. It is called by the traders of Biskra "The Key of the Desert."
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