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Updated: May 29, 2025
We are almost at our journey's end. There lies the village of Petresin. Its inhabitants still sleep, and the doors of the huts are closed: they do not see us. That is well, that is necessary; my father said no one must know that we are taking you away a prisoner. Do you see that little spot on the verge of the dessert? That is my father's tent."
The palm trees in the neighboring wood of Petresin threw long shadows across the yellow sand, and yet Sheik Arnhyn had not yet come, and Mohammed waited in vain for intelligence concerning his captor's purposes. He had again been seated with Butheita on the mat, and had eaten with her as in the morning.
He told me his daughter was much changed; she had become sad and delicate, and he had therefore sent her to visit some friends at Petresin, in order that she might be thrown together with other young girls for a time, and learn to laugh and jest again. She had, however, sent her father word yesterday that she could endure it no longer, and would return home to-day.
"Now I am no longer il! The time for action has come!" He calls one of his Nubian slaves. "Hasten, my Saneb hasten to the camp of the Mameluke beys. You will find them near Petresin, on the banks of the Nile.
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