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"By what route?" "Why, by Silet and Timissao." The Targa again shook his head. "They will look for you on that road also," he said. "It is a good road, the road with the wells. They know that you are familiar with it. The Tuareg would not fail to wait at the wells." "Well, then?"
It was on the east bank of Wadi Tarhit, a hundred and twenty kilometers from Timissao, at 25.5 degrees north latitude, according to the official report, that Captain Morhange was buried. "André," I cried stupidly, "I swear to you " "What do you swear to me?" "That I never meant " "To speak of Wadi Tarhit? Why? Why should you not speak to me of Wadi Tarhit?"
It remains understood that Captain Morhange died from a sunstroke and that I buried him on the border of the Tarhit watercourse, three marches from Timissao. Everybody can detect that there are things missing in my story. Doubtless they guess at some mysterious drama. But proofs are another matter.
"Well," said Ceghéir-ben-Cheikh, "you must not rejoin the road from Timissao to Timbuctoo until you are four hundred miles from here toward Iferouane, or better still, at the spring of Telemsi. That is the boundary between the Tuareg of Ahaggar and the Awellimiden Tuareg." The little voice of Tanit-Zerga broke in: "It was the Awellimiden Tuareg who massacred my people and carried me into slavery.
"The grottos with the inscriptions are three-days' march southward in the mountains. At first, the road is rather rough. But farther on, it turns, and you gain Timissao very easily. There are good wells where the Tuareg Taitoqs, who are friendly to the French, come to water their camels." "And you know the road well?" He shrugged his shoulders. His eyes had a scornful smile.
On the other hand, the road from here to Telemsi is shorter than by way of Timissao. It is quite straight." "Yes, it is direct," I said, "but, in following it, you have to cross the Tanezruft." Ceghéir-ben-Cheikh waved his hand impatiently. "Ceghéir-ben-Cheikh knows that," he said. "He knows what the Tanezruft is.
I have given up the idea of going straight to Timissao. First I should like to make a little excursion into the interior of the Ahaggar range." I frowned: "What is this new idea?" As I spoke I looked about for Eg-Anteouen, whom I had seen in conversation with Morhange the previous evening and several minutes before.
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