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And you Ali said that you also were wounded?" "Mine was a trifling business," he said, "and Sidi's not much worse. We both suffered from loss of blood, which perhaps is a good thing, as we have had no fever, and though our wounds are somewhat sore, we have almost ceased to think of them. There, I can see by the light that the fire is burning up inside. Now we will go in.
Save as to my own name I had need to go but little beyond the truth. I had won Sidi's gratitude by aiding him against two ruffians. He had slain a man who was about to attack me, though that did not take place, as they supposed, at the time of the massacre of the European shopkeepers, but the main facts were true, and there was no fear that in the telling of them I should get myself into trouble."
"Tell me about it," the sheik said, his face hardening and his fingers playing with the hilt of the long knife in his sash. Sidi related the whole adventure. The sheik stood stroking his beard gravely as Sidi spoke. His eyes turned from his son to Edgar. "Bishmillah!" he exclaimed, when the story was finished, "Allah must have sent you to be Sidi's protector.
The delight of the haughty Sidi's eyes was borne off to the tents of his foe, and the Colonel's face flushed darkly with an eager, lustful warmth, as he looked upon his captive.
Desaix is many days' journey to the south. Probably a force will march to Suez. I heard it said by some French officers that this would probably be the next move, and Napoleon will not care to further weaken the garrison of the city by sending out search parties." "Is Sidi's wound a bad one?" "No, it is nothing like so severe as that which you received on the cheek.
For a moment the brown face of an old man, wrinkled as a monkey's, looked out between the gates, which he held ajar; then, with a guttural cry, he threw both as far back as he could, and rushing out, bent his white turban over Maïeddine's hand. He kissed the Sidi's shoulder, and a fold of his burnous, half kneeling, and chattering Arabic, only a word of which Victoria could catch here and there.
The rosewater, and the perfumes from Tunis, and the softening creams made in the tent of the Sidi's mother, are all offered to thee." "No, no," the girl persisted, "I am sure they are meant more for Lella M'Barka than for me. She is his cousin."
In spite of his Arab stoicism, the tears were running down Sidi's cheeks as they issued into the open air. "I am not crying for joy that I am freed, brother," he said, "but with pleasure at seeing you alive.
At ten in the evening Edgar rode into the Bedouins' encampment, having passed over eighty miles since leaving the Pyramid. Sidi's party had arrived there half an hour earlier, and he found that his friend was now in the tent of the sheik. Edgar went there at once, and Sidi introduced him to his uncle, who was some years older than his father. "I am rejoiced to see you," the sheik said gravely.
I have been talking with Sidi. It must be a fortnight or three weeks before you are fit to sit a horse again. It is very fortunate, by the way, that you sent your favourite horse, as well as Sidi's and mine, back by two of your followers from the Pyramids when you decided to enter the town; and that we rode other horses in that charge in Cairo.
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