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Another question was on my tongue, but before I had time to speak, Monny cried out: "Oh, there's Wretched Bey, in a carriage, all alone with some luggage! I hope he's going away!" Naturally we turned, but I saw Biddy raise her eyebrows warningly. The girl looked puzzled, as if, for an instant, she did not see what she had done that was wrong.
"I would have you propose to Monny." "Oh by Jove, Mrs. East!" "Why don't you admire her?" "But of course. She's irresistible. Only she's so horribly rich. And besides, she doesn't think of me in that way." "You can't be sure. Now, Lord Ernest, I'm going to whisper you a secret. I believe I really do that Monny would be glad if you'd propose.
"Anyhow, don't borrow trouble," said I. "If Esme's married the more reason for us to follow her example. After Khartum, when Miss Gilder " "Who's taking my name in vain?" inquired the owner of it, at the sanctuary door. "Oh, then you have come, Monny!" Brigit exclaimed. "I I'd given you up." "I haven't come for the reason you thought," returned the girl promptly.
But what would have happened to Brigit and Monny before the sounding of that dinner gong? What did happen at the beginning I must tell as best I can, because I was not there, and can speak for myself only from the Temple of Mut. When they stole almost secretly away from Karnak, they took an arabeah which was waiting and drove to the sugar-plantation of Rechid Bey.
I haven't told Monny that the "Egyptian Prince," as Rachel Guest has nicknamed him, is your friend Captain Anthony Fenton playing some deep game, partly connected with us, partly connected with a secret of his and yours; the secret you said was a "dusty" one in which women would not be interested. I haven't told her, because I don't want her to know.
He was enjoying Karnak because there was practically nothing "modern and Ptolemaic about it," but I thought how quickly he would lose this calmness of the student if some one blurted out a word about our plan for that evening. According to Monny, he had been "taken" with poor Mabella Hanem on board the Laconia admiring her so frankly that Rechid had banished his bride to her cabin.
He seemed to want to know things about me what I'd done, where I'd lived, and oh, lots of little questions he would ask. Monny and I made up our minds from the first, as I told you, that there mustn't be any fibs. I simply put him off. He never got anything out of me at all." "I see," I said; and let myself drift away from her into thoughtfulness. "Is that all, then?"
I guessed that it must have been built for a rich man who had died or failed in business, but now a sign in Arabic announced that it was a restaurant. A nod from the water seller told that I had reached the end of the journey. Nubian servants salaamed in the big room where once the master of the house had held receptions, and in a smaller room beyond I saw Antoun, Brigit, and Monny.
None of the party intended to dance, and so it would be easy, Brigit thought, to "have an eye upon the girls." Monny had bought Oriental costumes for herself and Rachel. They were rather conspicuous, luckily for Biddy's plan, for among the many gorgeous dresses in the Casino she had no difficulty in tracking those two.
The three sped by him, as he stood aside to let them pass, showing to Monny a pistol which matched the one he had lent her. This consoled the girl in obeying; for as "Antoun" had trusted her courage in this adventure, so did she trust his, and his strength and wit against four men or four dozen men, if need were.
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