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Updated: June 18, 2025
Lacey was as certain as though he had the book of Nahoum's mind open in his hand, that David's work had been torn down again and this time with dire effect by this Armenian, whom David trusted like a brother.
"We have finished our business, and it is late," she answered. David looked at Nahoum. "Thee will rest here, pasha, in peace. In a moment I will return." He took up his hat. There was a sudden flash of Nahoum's eyes, as though he saw an outcome of the intention which pleased him, but Hylda, saw the flash, and her senses were at once alarmed. "There is no need to accompany me," she said.
Outside Nahoum's door she had a moment of utter weakness, when her knees smote together, and her throat became parched; but before the door had swung wide and her eyes swept the cool and shadowed room, she was as composed as on that night long ago when she had faced the man who knew. Nahoum was standing in a waiting and respectful attitude as she entered.
See, the soldiers are moving. They're going to ride out to meet him." She made a gesture towards the far shore where Kaid's men were saddling their horses, and to Nahoum's and Kaid's dahabiehs, where there was a great stir. "There's one from Hamley will meet them first," Soolsby said, and pointed to where Hylda, in the desert, was riding towards the camels coming out of the south.
Also, from Nahoum's spies he learned of plots and counterplots, chiefly on Achmet's part; and these he hid from Kaid, while he trusted Nahoum and not without reason, as yet. The day of Nahoum's wrath and revenge was not yet come; it was his deep design to lay the foundation for his own dark actions strong on a rock of apparent confidence and devotion.
But in Hylda's look, as it met Nahoum's, there was no doubt what woman doubts the convert whom she thinks she has helped to make? Meanwhile, the Nubians smote their mailed breasts with their swords in honour of David and Kaid.
"Well, that sounds generous, but I guess he would get on without it, pasha. He would not want to be under any more obligations to you." "He is without money. He must be helped." "Just so." "He cannot go to the treasury, and Prince Kaid has refused. Why should he decline help from his friend?" Suddenly Lacey changed his tactics. He had caught a look in Nahoum's eyes which gave him a new thought.
It was clear, however, that Nahoum meant to be silent, or he would have taken another course of action. Danger lay in every direction, but, to her mind, the least danger lay in following Nahoum's wish. She slowly raised her veil, showing a face very still now, with eyes as steady as David's. David started at her action, he thought it rash; but the courage of it pleased him, too.
And now, down in Cairo, Nahoum runs Egypt; for a messenger that got through the tribes worrying us tells us that Kaid is sick, and Nahoum the Armenian says, you shall, and you shan't, now. Which is another way of saying, that between us and the front door of our happy homes there are rattlesnakes that can sting Nahoum's arm is long, and his traitors are crawling under the canvas of our tents!
Yet it could serve no good end to attempt to warn him now. He had outlived peril so far; might it not be that, after all, he would win? So far she had avoided Nahoum's name in talks with David. She could scarcely tell why she did, save that it opened a door better closed, as it were; but the restraint had given way at last. "Thee remembers what I said that night?" David repeated slowly.
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