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Wassef replied that the Mamour did well not to accept the backsheesh of Mahommed Selim's father, for the Mouffetish at the palace of Ismail would have heard of it, and there would have been an end to the Mamour. It was quite a different matter when it was backsheesh for sending Mahommed Selim to the Soudan.
The Fiskiyyah or "tanks," as carefully built, were of all sizes; and the wells, which appeared to be mediaeval, were lined with stones cut in segments of circles: we shall see the same curve in Sultan Selim's work near Ziba. The greatest feat is an aqueduct which, sanded over in the upper part, subtends the left side of the valley.
By this plan we had good hopes of meeting, though we could not conceal from ourselves that there were many dangers to be encountered; but yet no more feasible plan presented itself. So confident did I feel in Selim's honesty, that, without speaking to him, I at once went back to the sheikh and boldly requested that he might be allowed to accompany me.
"It was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and although the day was brilliant out-of-doors, we were enveloped in the gloomy darkness of the cavern. One single, solitary light was burning there, and it appeared like a star set in a heaven of blackness; it was Selim's flaming lance. My mother was a Christian, and she prayed.
Selim's bedroom and look for yourselves." Like sheep, they crowded into the little foyer and on into the bedroom. There stood the big bronze lamp, set squarely in front of the window frame and in a direct line with the musical powder box on dead Nita's dressing table.
She was tickled to pieces over being taken up by all them society people, and on the go day and night " "Lydia, this is Mrs. Selim's last will and testament," Dundee interrupted, withdrawing the sheets slowly and unfolding them.
The royal blue velvet dress lay on top, neatly folded. Dundee shook out its folds. It looked remarkably fresh and new, in spite of the years it had hung in Nita Selim's various clothes closets, preserved because of God alone knew what tender memories. Perhaps the beautiful little dancer had intended all those years that it should be her shroud.... "Oh, it's lovely!"
I didn't hear of the arrangement," Polly answered decidedly. "You were a close friend of Mrs. Selim's perhaps?" Dundee prodded. "Not at all! But that would not keep me from doing my hostess a courtesy.... She hated her Ford and liked expensive cars," Polly added unemotionally. "It was about a quarter to one when I got here, I should say.
A diligent search was made round the camp, but no traces of him could be found, and no one could guess the direction he had taken. We now again moved forward, and were once more in the open country. By Selim's advice, Halliday and I did our best to ingratiate ourselves with the sheikh.
A feeling of revulsion swept over her, combatting the first natural, womanly pride in the deed of a brave man. Chase struggled weakly to his feet. He saw the tense, strained figure before him, and, putting out his hand, said: "She is Selim's wife. I am stronger than he, so I brought her down." Then looking upward anxiously, he shouted: "Be careful, Selim! It's easy if you take your time to it."
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