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Then he placed his head against the wooden logs and pushed; but the palisade was strong and only gave a little to the pressure. In The Sheik's tent The Sheik rose at last, and, pointing toward the bound captive, turned to one of his lieutenants. "Burn him," he commanded. "At once. The stake is set." The guard pushed Korak from The Sheik's presence.
The preparations had been almost completed when Craven arrived at the camp, and tonight, for the first time, at a final war council of all the principal headmen held in the Sheik's tent, he had seen the stricken man and had hardly recognized in the gaunt attenuated figure that only an inflexible will seemed to keep upright, the handsome stalwart Arab who of all the tribe had most nearly approached his own powerful physique.
Then go to Praousta, to the sheik's house, and demand the restoration of my slave. Demand it in my name. If her father refuses, search the house and every place connected with it. Break open the doors if he refuses to unlock them. If you do not find her there, search the other houses of the village. I must have her! If you do not find her to-day, then find her to-morrow or the next day.
While Saint Hubert, with difficulty, cleared the tent of the Sheik's men Diana stood beside the divan and looked at him. He was soaked in blood that had burst through the temporary bandages, and his whole body bore evidence of the terrible struggle that had gone before the blow that had felled him. One blood-covered hand hung down almost touching the rug.
He stretched it out in his open palm; and all at once, bag, hand, and arm up to the elbow enveloped themselves in a whirling mist and vanished from sight, even as the Master's whole body had vanished in the cabin when Leclair had tried to arrest him. The Sheik's eyes grew white-rimmed with astonishment. Vaguely he groped for the Frank's hand, then let his own fall limp. "Allahu akbar!" he gasped.
I got him for a song of course the beggar is stolen. Give him back, if they claim him. But as for any sheik's daughter keep the crowd out, Thatcher, I won't have them here, not in these tombs " "I tell you they are policemen they are armed you can't resist " "How many are they? A lot? But they'll take your word, won't they? Look here, McLean, can't you settle this for me and keep them out?"
Ali had told him on leaving that he might possibly return with the sheik's wife, but that he was not to mention it to Sidi or the sheik himself. Edgar walked up and down near the fire. An hour later he heard voices below, and gave an exclamation of pleasure, and two or three minutes later Ali and Ayala appeared within the circle of light, the former leading the horse on which she was sitting.
However, that refusal, whatever its motive, had undoubtedly saved his life; and, moreover, the sheik had behaved with great kindness to him since, and he felt that it was clearly his duty to do all in his power to assist him now; but how? It was upwards of an hour before he rose from the fire and again entered the sheik's tent. The sheik was sitting smoking gravely.
"The Bible in Hebrew! Does he read it?" "Like a Jewish elder." "And the Gospels?" The Sheik's face became reproachful. "Art thou even thou, O Princess of those who believe a Moslem must reject Christ because the Prophet of Islam succeeded him with later teachings?" Dropping then into the passionless manner, he continued: "The Koran does not deny Christ or his Gospels.
My mother had recently died and he wanted to get away from everything that reminded him of her. One evening, shortly after his arrival at the camp, a party of the Sheik's men who had been absent for some days in the north on the chief's affairs arrived, bringing with them a woman whom they had found wandering in the desert.
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