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He will look for me, and then he will grow tired, and perhaps go home to England before I can write to let him know I am safe with Saidee." Her voice broke a little. She bent down her head, and there were tears in her eyes. She heard the creaking of the gate as it shut. The motor-car had gone panting away. For a moment it seemed as if her heart would break.
There was just enough light to reflect these patterns faintly in the mirrors set in the closed door, opposite which Saidee lay in bed; and to her imagination it was as if she could see through the door, into a lighted place beyond.
He was a Spahi, stationed in Algiers, and he owned a house there." "Ah, in Algiers!" Stephen began to see light rather a lurid light. "Yes. His name was Cassim ben Halim el Cheikh el Arab. Before he had known Saidee two weeks, he proposed. She took a little while to think it over, and I begged her to say 'no' but one day when Mrs.
"I don't know any more about her than if Cassim ben Halim had really carried my sister off to fairyland, and shut the door behind them. You see, I was only eight years old. I couldn't make my own life. After Saidee was married and taken to Algiers, my stepmother began to imagine herself in love with an American from Indiana, whom she met in Paris.
"But I had nothing to tell, really nothing I could have put into words. And you might only have laughed if I'd said 'There's a man I know in Algiers who hasn't any idea where I am, but I think he'll come here, and take us both away." "Are you engaged to each other?" Saidee asked, curiously, even enviously. "Oh no! But but " "But what? Do you mean you will be if you ever get away from this place?"
"Oh Lella Saïda, there is a message, of which I hardly dare to speak," whispered Noura to her mistress, when she brought supper for the two sisters, the night when the way to the roof had been closed up. "Tell me what it is, and do not be foolish," Saidee said sharply. Her nerves were keyed to the breaking point, and she had no patience left.
"You might have been to heaven and back since I saw you; you're so radiant!" she said. "I have been to heaven. But I haven't come back. I'm there now," Victoria answered. "Look and tell me what you see." Saidee put the glasses to her eyes. "I see a man in European clothes," she said. "I can see that he's young. I should think he's a gentleman, and good looking "
Now, his left arm wounded, his head cut, and eyes half blinded with a rain of rubble brought down by an Arab bullet, he had made part of the descent when Saidee screamed her high-pitched scream of terror. He was still far above the remnant of stairway, broken off thirty feet above ground level.
But when the girl had been rather more than a week in the Zaouïa, Saidee spoke out. "I suppose you've guessed why I come up on the roof at sunset," she said. "Yes," Victoria answered. "I thought so, by your face. Babe, if you'd accused me of anything, or reproached me, I'd have brazened it out with you.
She spoke as if Victoria were an inferior, whom she had a right to command. Surprised and hurt by the tone, the girl hesitated, looking from the newcomer to Stephen. At first glance and at a little distance, she had thought the young woman perfectly beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful creature she had ever seen even more glorious than Saidee.
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