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Updated: June 22, 2025
7 hours, to Dat, the first town of Kasym. In all, one hundred hours. From Dat to Rass, one of the chief towns of Kasym, is four or five hours. From Rass to a place called Khabara, five hours; and from Khabara to Shebeybe, four hours. According to the night journies of the Bedouins, one hundred hours are equal to ten or eleven marches by day.
The neighbourhood of Rass produces the most corn; and that part of Kasym about Dat and Rass lies nearest to Medina. In time of peace, regular caravans arrive every month at Medina from Rass. Tousoun Pasha's army found plenty of provisions in the few villages of Kasym which they occupied.
Nur-el-Din cast a frightened glance over her shoulder at the floor beside the table where Rass lay. On seeing the white pall that hid him from view, she became somewhat reassured. She rose unsteadily to her feet and stood facing Matthews.
At the top, he took the lead and conducted Barbara into the taproom. A single candle stood on the table, throwing a wan light into the room. Rass lay on his back in the centre of the floor, one hand doubled up under him, one knee slightly drawn up. Barbara started back in horror. "Is he... is he..." she stammered, pointing at the limp still form. Strangwise nodded.
Yet he has not got it here!" Heavy footsteps resounded in the room above. Rass cried out something swiftly to the dancer, thrust the pistol into her hands, and dashed up the ladder. The next moment there was a loud report followed by the thud of a heavy body falling. Somewhere in the rooms above a woman screamed. Nur-el-Din's hands flew to her face and the pistol crashed to the ground.
But I knew what this Austro-German kingdom of Poland was to be, a serf state with not a shadow of that liberty for which every Pole is longing. Since I have been in England, I have kept in touch with the Polish political organizations in this country. Rass, as he calls himself, the landlord of this inn, is one of the most prominent of the Polish leaders in England.
The dancer said something in French to her maid who picked up the tray and departed. "Now, Mademoiselle," said Nur-el-Din, "you see this pistol. Rass here will use it if you make any attempt to escape. You understand me, hein? I come to give you a las' chance to say where you 'ave my box..." Barbara looked at the dancer defiantly. "I've told you already I know nothing about it.
I planted those documents in her dress or rather Bellward did to draw suspicion away from me. I thought you English would be too flabby to execute a woman; but I reckoned on you putting the girl away for some years to come. I would have shot her as I shot Rass if..." His voice trembled and he was silent. "If what?" asked the Chief. "If she hadn't been my wife," said Strangwise.
He remembered the entrance of the maid and the dancer's hurried exit. Might not Marie have come to tell her that Barbara Mackwayte was below asking for her? It was very shortly after this interruption that, crouching on the roof of the shed, he had heard that muffled cry from the house and seen Rass enter the bar and speak with Strangwise.
The man, Rass, suddenly cocked his ear towards the staircase and said something to Nur-el-Din in the same foreign tongue which Barbara had heard them employ before. The dancer made a gesture, bidding him to be silent. "He was at my dressing-table that night;" she murmured in French, as though to herself, "then it was he who did it!" She spoke rapidly to Barbara.
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