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I hesitated a moment, lest I should fall into another trap, trying to escape from the first; but, seeing he was an Englishman, I would not believe him capable of playing into the Turks' hands for our undoing, and so I told him our business was for midnight on the feast of Ramadah.
"To-morrow at midnight," I return. Upon which, casting down the cloth, he goes away without further sign. And now comes in the feast of Ramadah with a heavy, steady downpour of rain all day, and no sign of ceasing at sundown, which greatly contented us.
"When would you go?" asks he. "Why," says I, "our passes expire at sundown after the day of Ramadah, so we must get hence, by hook or by crook, before that." Moreover, the moon by then will not rise before two in the morning. So all being in our favour, I'm minded to venture on this business.
Godwin being not less eager for the venture than we, who had so much more to dread by letting it slip, though his pass had yet a fortnight to run. "'Tis well," says he, pocketing the money, after kissing it and looking up to heaven with a "Dill an," which means "It is from God." "We will not meet again till the day of Ramadah at midnight, lest we fall under suspicion. Farewell."
The next day there fell a great deluge of rain, and the morrow being the feast of Ramadah, we regarded this as highly favourable to our escape; for here when rain falls it ceases not for forty-eight hours, and thus might we count upon the aid of darkness. Then perceiving this was Joe Groves, I answered in the same manner: "All goes well." "To-morrow at midnight?"
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