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Updated: May 7, 2025
I can think now. Soon I shall be well. Don't be anxious about me, darling." Very gently she slipped away from Saidee's arm that clasped her waist; and the softness of the young voice, which had been sharp with pain, touched the elder woman. She knew that the girl was thinking more of her, Saidee, than of herself.
Saidee had been right. The door of the outer room was locked. Standing at the top of the stairs, the pounding sounded much louder than before. Saidee laughed faintly and bitterly. "They're determined to make a good job of it," she said. Stephen rode back with his Arab companion, to the desert city where Nevill waited.
But before the words shaped themselves fully in her mind terrible words, because she had felt the beauty and sacred meaning of life the desert spoke to her. "Saidee does want you," the spirit of the wind and the glimmering sands seemed to say.
"I felt there was something else, beside." "There was!" Saidee confessed. "You know now at least you know part. I was jealous. I am still but I'm ashamed of myself. I'm sick with shame. And I do love you!" "Of course of course you do, darling." "But there's somebody else I love. A man. And I couldn't bear to think he might see you, because you're so much younger and fresher than I."
Then Saidee went away, followed by the negress, who softly closed the door between the two rooms. Her mistress had not told her to do this, but when it was done, she did not say, "Open the door." Saidee was glad that it was shut, because she felt that she could think more freely.
And he hated the girl, too, though he could not punish her as he could punish Saidee, for he must have Maïeddine's help presently, and Maïeddine would insist that she should be protected, whatever might happen to others.
"You mean Cassim?" "No. Not Cassim." Silence fell between the two. Victoria did not speak; and suddenly Saidee was angry with her for not speaking. "If you're shocked, I won't go on," she said. "You can't help me by preaching." "I'm not shocked," the girl protested. "Only sorry so sorry. And even if I wanted to preach, I don't know how."
"I got a letter to him from the American Consul, and had a little audience with him is that what I ought to call it? this morning. He was kind, but could tell me nothing I didn't know any way, he would tell nothing more. He wasn't in Algiers when Saidee came. It was in the day of his predecessor." Nevill admired her promptness and energy, and said so.
Knight saw " "Would he be likely to recognize it, do you think?" "He noticed it on the boat, and I told him you gave it to me." "If he would come all the way from Algiers on the strength of a brooch which might have been yours, and you might have given to Maïeddine, then he's a man who knows what he wants, and deserves to get it," Saidee said. "If he could help us!
"Give me a chance to think, that's all I ask, except except that you love me meanwhile. Oh, darling, don't be angry, will you? I can't bear it, if you are." Saidee laid her head on the girl's arm once more, and they kissed each other. Maïeddine did not try to see Victoria, or send her any message.
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