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Updated: June 25, 2025
Surely it can go in less than half the time we would take, riding up and down among the dunes." "Oh, much less than half! Captain Sabine said that from the bordj of Toudja the pigeon would come to him in an hour and a half, or two at most." "Then wait a little longer. Somehow I feel you'll be glad if you do." Saidee looked quickly at the girl. "You make me superstitious," she said. "Why?"
Some day, perhaps, Saidee would understand, and they would be drawn together again more closely than before. "There's Toudja," Stephen said, as the girl looked out again from the bassour. Whenever he saw her face, framed thus by the dark red curtains, his heart beat, as if her beauty were new to him, seen that instant for the first time.
The little luggage they had brought went with them, and the basket containing the two carrier pigeons. Saidee fed the birds, and scribbled a few words on a scrap of paper, to tell Sabine that they had arrived safely at Toudja. On second thoughts, she added a postscript, while Victoria unpacked what they needed for the night. "He chose the rendezvous," Saidee wrote.
He took her in his arms and held her close, closer than he had held her the night at Toudja, when he had thought that death might soon part them. "You've brought me up out of the depths." "Not I," the girl said. "Your star." "Your star. You gave me half yours." "Now I give it to you all," she told him. "And all myself, too.
Yet away from Toudja he must go, since it was impossible to care for him properly there, and the bullet which had wounded him was still in his side. Fortunately the enemy had left plenty of camels.
It is a long cry from the bordj of Toudja among the dunes of the southern desert, to Algiers, yet Nevill begged that he might be taken home. "You know why," he said to Stephen, and his eyes explained, if Stephen needed explanations. Nevill thought there might be some chance of seeing Josette in Algiers, if he were dying. But the army surgeon from Oued Tolga pronounced it unsafe to take him so far.
In England, Margot Lorenzi was wondering why Stephen Knight had not come to meet her, and angrily making up her mind that she would find out the reason. Somehow, they all contrived to take a little food, three watching from the wall-towers while the others ate; and Saidee prepared strong, delicious coffee, such as had never been tasted in the bordj of Toudja.
Appoint as a meeting place the Bordj of Toudja, one day's march from the town of Oued Tolga. When my men have the child in their keeping, thou wilt be free to go in peace with the girl and thy friend." "I should be glad if thou wouldst send for her, and let me talk with her here," Stephen suggested. "No, that cannot be," the marabout answered decidedly.
When he should come to the desert telegraph station between Toudja and Touggourt, he would wire to the Carlton, where she thought of returning, and explain as well as he could that, not expecting her quite yet, he had stayed on in Africa, but would see her as soon as possible. "Better hurry up and get ready for dinner!" shouted Nevill, through a crack of their bedroom door.
"Did the marabout appoint Toudja as the place to make the exchange, or was it you?" she asked, over Victoria's shoulder. "The marabout," said Stephen. "I fell in with the idea because I'd already made objections to several, and I could see none to Toudja.
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