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There are several stopping places where we can inquire. He'll be seen passing them, even if he goes by." "But you say Arabs never betray each other to white men." "This won't be a question of betrayal. Watch and see how ingenuous, as well as ingenious, I'll be in all my inquiries." "I never heard of Oued Tolga," Stephen said, half to himself. "Don't confess that to an Arab.
"A little more, and we could not have crossed," said Maïeddine, when they had mounted up safely on the other side of the oued. "Art thou not very wet and miserable?" the girl asked sympathetically. "I miserable?" he echoed. "I who am privileged to feast upon the deglet nour, in my desert?"
I was just living for the time when I could earn money enough to search for you and preparing for it, of course, so as to be ready when it came." Saidee still looked toward Oued Tolga, where the white domes shimmered, far away in the moonlight, like a mirage.
There were comparatively few women pilgrims to the Zaouïa, except invalids from the town of Oued Tolga, or some Sahara encampment, who crawled on foot, or rode decrepit donkeys, hoping to be cured of ailments by the magic power of the marabout, the power of the Baraka. The woman who watched had learned by this time not to expect European tourists.
At that instant, far away, there was the dry bark of a gun. They looked at each other, and said nothing, but the same doubt was in the minds of all. It might be that the message would never reach Oued Tolga. Then another thought flashed into Stephen's brain. He asked himself whether it would be possible to climb up into the broken tower.
They had evidently come from Oued Tolga, or at least from that direction, therefore it was probable that their destination was the Zaouïa; otherwise, as it was already late, they would have stopped in the city all night.
When he finds that we're leaving Oued Tolga, instantly, and that he must be sent ignominiously home, he shall be ready to howl with grief. Then I'll ask him suddenly, how he'd like to go on a little trip, just far enough to meet my motor-car, and have a ride in it. He'll say yes, like a shot, if he's a normal boy.
It was very still in the Zaouïa of Oued Tolga. The only sound was the droning of the boys' voices, which came faintly from behind iron window-gratings below, and that monotonous murmur emphasized the silence, as the humming of bees in a hive makes the stillness of a garden in summer more heavy and hot.
They've taken care I shouldn't know! But I I've lately found out from a person who's made the journey, that one can get here from Algiers in a week or eight days. Seventeen hours by train to Biskra: Biskra to Touggourt two long days in a diligence, or carriage with plenty of horses; Touggourt to Oued Tolga on camel or horse, or mule, in three or four days going up and down among the great dunes.
She had gone away from the direction of the dying fire, in front of which the men of the caravan still squatted, and had taken the track that led toward the oasis. There was a narrow strip of desert to be crossed, and then a sudden descent over rocks, down to an oued or river-bed, which gave water to the mud village high up on the other side.
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