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"Get up," she cried again, and tugging at Ben Aboo's unconscious body she struck it in her terror and frenzy. It was every one for himself in that bad hour. Katrina followed the guards, and was never afterwards heard of. When Ben Aboo came to himself the patio was aglow with flames. He staggered to his feet, still grappling to his breast the money-bags hidden under his selham.
In the meantime, the other two had sped away to the Kasbah, and before Israel had ridden far into the town, the Kaid against all usage of his class and country ran and met him afoot, slipperless, wearing nothing but selham and tarboosh, out of breath, yet with a mouth full of excuses.
I pointed out to her that there was no hurry; she had missed the two fifty-five, which had left Selham fifteen minutes ago, and she had an hour to spare even if the car took half an hour getting to the station.
Now and again we pass some country kaid or khalifa out on business. As many as a dozen well-armed slaves and retainers may follow him, and, as a rule, he rides a well-fed Barb with a fine crimson saddle and many saddle cloths. Over his white djellaba is a blue selham that came probably from Manchester; his stirrups are silver or plated.
A portly Moor in a flowing blue selham rose from his seat on the step of the well as the dalal came abreast of him, and the slaves scenting here a buyer, and preferring any service to that of the galleys with which they were threatened, came each in turn to kiss his hands and fawn upon him, for all the world like dogs.
Only deliver your bodies to the Governor, and none shall harm you." Absalam rose up from his knees and called to his father and his son. And standing between them to be seen by all, and first looking upon both with eyes of pity, he drew from the folds of his selham a long knife such as the Reefians wear, and taking his father by his white hair he slew him and cast his body down the rocks.
He was visibly outraged at our intrusion on his sacred leisure. And when he was ordered to start at once for Selham, he refused. There was no train from Victoria, he said, between the four-four that Mr. Jevons hadn't come by and the five fifty-two. If, Kendal said, he did come by Victoria, and he always came by Waterloo.
She had changed all in a moment into a woman whom I did not know. "I'm going to fetch her back," she said. She had wriggled into her coat. "We'll overtake her before she gets to Selham, if you're quick." I looked at my watch. It was barely half-past four.
Parker was trying not to look at Norah. He began gathering up the tea-things as if to justify his presence and explain it. "When did he go?" I said as casually as I could. "Well, sir the cab was ordered to catch the four thirty-five from Midhurst." Now the four thirty-five from Midhurst is the four forty-five from Selham, the train that Viola had gone by.
The table was set as usual in the garden on the lawn in front of the house. By four o'clock no wire had come from Jevons; so we knew we needn't expect him till a later train. He nearly always came by Waterloo and Petersfield and was met at Midhurst, which gave him his public. But he might come, as Viola had gone, by Victoria and Horsham and be met at Selham.
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