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But thou hast made me believe, in spite of the rumours, that he lived." "I cannot explain to thee," Maïeddine answered gloomily, as if hating to refuse her anything. "In the end, thou wilt know all, and why I had to be silent." "But my sister?" the girl pleaded. "There is no mystery about her? Thou hast concealed nothing which concerns Saidee?"
They were to make a morning call on Mademoiselle Soubise in her curiosity-shop, and ask about Ben Halim, the husband of Saidee Ray. Victoria was coming to luncheon, for she had accepted Lady MacGregor's invitation. Her note had been brought in last night, while he and Nevill walked in the garden. Afterwards Lady MacGregor had shown it to them both.
Consciously she called to Stephen then, as she had promised she would call, if she should ever need him, for somehow she did need and want him; not for his help in finding Saidee: she was satisfied with all that Maïeddine was doing but for herself.
She was thinking of her sister's good. There was no doubt of that, she told herself: no doubt whatever. Victoria felt as if all her blood were beating in her brain. She could not think, and dimly she was glad that Saidee did not speak again. She could not have borne more of those hatefully specious arguments. For a moment she stood still, pressing her hands over her eyes, and against her temples.
She could be useful to Saidee; that was all. She hoped for nothing more. And little as she knew of society, she understood that Stephen belonged to a different world from hers; the world where people were rich, and gay, and clever, and amused themselves; the high world, from a social point of view.
Surely it can go in less than half the time we would take, riding up and down among the dunes." "Oh, much less than half! Captain Sabine said that from the bordj of Toudja the pigeon would come to him in an hour and a half, or two at most." "Then wait a little longer. Somehow I feel you'll be glad if you do." Saidee looked quickly at the girl. "You make me superstitious," she said. "Why?"
But of course I wasn't really. God's power was over his, and he felt it. Things always do come out right, if you just know they will." Saidee shivered a little, though her hand on Victoria's was hot. "I wish I could think like that," she half whispered. "If I could, I " "What, dearest?" "I should be brave, that's all. I've lost my spirit lost faith, too as I've lost everything else.
But you can look at the evening star if you like. It's so thrilling in the sunset sky, I sometimes call it my star." "All right," said Stephen, with his elder-brother air. "And when I look I'll think of you." "You can think of me as being with Saidee at last." "You have the strongest presentiment that you'll find her without difficulty."
"Wherever Say was, there would always be a picture," Victoria said with the unselfish, unashamed pride she had in her sister. "How I hope Saidee knows I'm near her," she went on, half to herself. "She'd know that I'd come to her as soon as I could and she may have heard things about me that would tell her I was trying to make money enough for the journey and everything.
Nevill and he and Sabine had talked them all over, and decided that, on the whole, there was no great danger of treachery from the marabout, who stood to lose too much, to gain too little, by breaking faith. As for Maïeddine, he was ill with fever, so the sisters said, and Saidee and Victoria believed that he had been kept in ignorance of the marabout's bargain.
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