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Updated: May 7, 2025
On a white roof like this, she had seen Saidee stand with eyes shaded from the sun in the west; waiting for her, calling for her, or so she had believed. Poor Saidee! Poor, beautiful Saidee; changed in soul, though so little changed in face! Could it be that she had never called in spirit to her sister?
"Of course," Saidee answered unhesitatingly. "I'm delighted enchanted for my own sake. If I'm frightened, if you think me strange farouche it's because I'm so surprised, and because can you believe it? this is the first time I've spoken English with any human being for nine years perhaps more. I almost forget it seems a century. I talk to myself so as not to forget.
The very existence of Miluda was to her a dreadful mystery upon which she could not bear to let her mind dwell. "I'm not sure," Saidee murmured. "Let me think. This means something very curious, I can't think what. But I should like to know. It can't make things worse for us if you accept her invitation. It may make them better. Will you go and see what the creature wants?"
There was Saidee standing before her, found at last. Saidee, well and safe, and lovely as ever, hardly changed in feature, and yet there was something strange about her, something which stopped the joyous beating of the girl's heart. It was almost as if she had died and come to Heaven, to find that Heaven was not Heaven at all, but a cold place of fear.
"No," the girl answered. "Why shouldn't you write to say you're safe? He's your friend, and you're going far away." Saidee almost wished that Victoria had scolded her. Without speaking again, she began to fasten her letter under the bird's wing, but gave a little cry, for there was blood on her fingers. "Oh, he's hurt himself somehow!" she exclaimed. "He won't be able to fly, I'm afraid.
"Dear star," she whispered, "thank you for coming. I needed you just then." "Are you better?" asked Saidee in a choked voice. Victoria turned away from sky and desert to the drooping figure of the woman, standing in a pool of shadow, dark as fear and treachery. "Yes, dearest one, I am well again, and I won't have to worry you any more." The girl gently wound two protecting arms round her sister.
We rested and lunched this side of the city. I don't feel as if I should ever be hungry again. I'm so " Victoria stopped. She could not say: "I am so happy," though she ought to have been able to say that. What was she, then, if not happy? "I'm so excited," she finished. Saidee stroked the girl's hand, softly.
I used always to think she would." Victoria took back the portrait, and gazed at it. Stephen was sorry for the child. He thought it more than likely that Saidee had changed for the worse, physically and spiritually, even mentally, if Mademoiselle Soubise were right in her surmises.
It was not even certain, if the marabout were threatened and thought himself in danger, that he might not cause the sisters to disappear. That thought prevented the two men from coming easily to any decision. Sabine had not told them that he knew Saidee, or that he had actually heard of the girl's arrival in the Zaouïa.
Without Saidee and Victoria, they could bring forward no definite and visible proof that the great marabout, Sidi El Hadj Mohammed Abd el Kadr, and the disgraced Captain Cassim ben Halim were one. And the supreme difficulty was to produce Saidee and Victoria as witnesses.
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