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Updated: May 27, 2025
Beneath them they could see the whole stretch of the shining sand-dune that led to the next island, the calm lagoon and the rough water in the bay beyond. It did not seem a likely place for outlaws to hide in; the sun poured down on every hill and hollow of the sand.
"But I could not return to the place of my shame, likewise were my parents dead, leaving me an equal part of their great wealth. "So I went to other parts and bought 'the flat oasis' as it is called, on account of the many miles of perfectly flat sand surrounding it, absolutely unbroken by rock or bush or sand-dune.
I did so on this night, and stretching myself upon a sand-dune I composed myself to read. As I lay there I suddenly became aware of a shadow which interposed itself between the sun and myself.
It terminated, or partly terminated swerving off into the south beyond in a long sand-dune running northeast and southwest. This mighty roll lay brooding, as did the world-old expanse fringing it, in the silence of late morning.
"Tell me you are not hurt?" "Oh, no," dragging himself up the bank, yet panting as he endeavored to speak cheerfully. "Only that was a rather hard pull, the last of it, and I am short of breath. I shall be all right in a moment." There was a sand-dune just beyond, and he seated himself and leaned against it. "I am beginning to breathe easier already," he explained. "Sit down here, Miss McDonald.
They sat down on the sand-dune behind the tent and watched the waters flash in the silvery light, the world and its fevered life forgotten. "You're the only thing real tonight, Jim!" she sighed. "And you're the world for me, Kiddo!" She waked at dawn, with a queer feeling of awe at the weird, gray light which filtered through the cotton walls.
It was just as he was thinking thus, and wondering if Victoria had passed this way, when the strange sound came to his ears, out of the distance. "Stop," he said in French to his Arab driver. "I think friends of mine will be in that car." He was right. A few minutes later Nevill and Lady MacGregor waved to him, as he stood on the top of a low sand-dune.
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