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"Say, perhaps it was cute as she can be, maybe, wouldn't like it, might be prejudiced." Suddenly David turned sharply to Lacey. "Thee spoke of silver mining just now. I owe thee something like two hundred thousand pounds, I think Egypt and I." Lacey winked whimsically at himself under the rim of his helmet. "Are you drawing back from those concessions, Saadat?" he asked with apparent ruefulness.
You see, there's a widow in Cairo she's a sister of the American consul, and I've promised to take her with a party camping in the Fayoum cute as she can be, and plays the guitar. But it's all right now, except that the Saadat is running too close and fine.
Then he was stricken with leprosy, and was carried to the place from whence no leper returns. At first my heart rejoiced; then, at last, I forgave him, Saadat was he not my father's son, and was the woman not gone to the bosom of Allah, where is peace?
"I wanted to do something like that myself. Kiss 'em, honey; it'll do you good." After a moment, Mahommed drew back and squatted before him in an attitude of peace and satisfaction. "The Saadat you will help him? You will give him money?"
In his uncivilised soul Mahommed Hassan felt this murmur, and even as he sat waiting to know whether a little army would steal out of the south like phantoms into this circle the Saadat had drawn round him, he kept humming to himself had he not been, was he not now, an Apollo to numberless houris who had looked down at him from behind mooshrabieh screens, or waited for him in the palm-grove or the cane-field?
He went down to Mexico, with a million or two of his own money got honestly by an undisputed will from an undisputed father you don't understand that, but it doesn't matter and with a few millions of other people's money, for to gamble in mines and railways and banks and steamship companies all to do with Mexico what the Saadat has tried to do in Egypt with less money; but not for the love of Allah, same as him.
He closed his eyes, a tremor running through his body; and then, with an effort which stilled him to peace again, he moved forward, and was greeted by Ebn Ezra, from whom the third member of the little group had now drawn apart nearer to the acacia-tree, and was seated on a rock that jutted from the sand. "What is it?" David asked. "Wouldst thou not sleep, Saadat?
Here we were just about to start; and if we'd got away south, the job would have done more harm, and the Saadat would have been out of the way. No, I can't understand why the firebug didn't let us get clean away; for if the Saadat stays here, he'll be where he can stop the underground mining." Nahoum's self-control did not desert him, though he fully realised that this man suspected him.
Dost thou think Claridge Pasha will not go now? The troops are ready at Wady- Halfa, everything is in order; the last load of equipment has gone. Will not Claridge Pasha find the money somehow? I will do what I can. My heart is moved to aid him." "Yes, you'd do what you could, pasha," Lacey rejoined enigmatically, "but whether it would set the Saadat on his expedition or not is a question.
Send four or five thousand men before the day comes when famine does its work and they draw the bowstring tight. Salaam and salaam, and the post is going out, and there's nothing in the morning paper; and, as Aunt Melissa used to say: "Well, so much for so much!" One thing I forgot. I'm lucky to be writing to you at all. If the Saadat was an old-fashioned overlord, I shouldn't be here.
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