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Sanda thought of that, and thought again also that in a few months more Richard Stanton would come to Touggourt for the getting together of his caravan. These two thoughts transformed the wild desert town with its palms, and tombs of murdered sultans, and its frame of golden dunes into a magical city of romance. She felt that some great thing ought to happen to her there.
For an instant, he was tempted to put the folded bit of paper in his pocket, unread until Touggourt, or even Biskra. "Why shouldn't I keep these few days unspoiled by thoughts of what's to come, since they're the only happy days I shall ever have?" he asked himself. But it would be weak to put off the evil moment, and he would not yield. He opened the telegram. "Sailing on Virginian.
That is why I ask, as a favour from one man to another, whether you would be willing to go to the Agha's house and escort my daughter here to Touggourt. I know how much I am exacting of a born soldier like yourself." "My Colonel, you are conferring on me the Cross of the Legion of Honour!" Max cried out impulsively. "Then you accept?" "I implore you to accept me for the service."
Before starting into the unknown Max bought from the leader of his own camel-men some garments which Khadra had washed for her husband at Ben Râana's douar. They were to be ready for his return to Touggourt, and were still as clean as the brackish water of the desert could make them.
It is strained when we have four or five officers for the night, and though I and my brother have been in this God-forsaken place worse luck! for nine years, we have never yet had to put up ladies. Unfortunately, too, my brother is away, gone to Touggourt to buy stores, and I have only one Arab to help me.
"They can to Touggourt with 'deeficulty, as the noble twins would say." "Maïeddine may take a car." "Not likely. Though there's just a chance he might get some European friend with a motor to give him a lift. In that case, you'd be rather stuck." "Motor cars leave tracks," said Stephen. "Especially in the desert, where they are quite conspicuous," Nevill agreed.
Max wished angrily that his ears were less quick, and that he had not such a useless facility for picking up words out of every patois. Half an hour passed, and the blue shadows deepened to purple. It was night, and Touggourt miles away. Still the two were talking, and the darkness had closed around them like the curtains of a tent.
Haven't I a right to wait a few hours for a companion a wife? The first thing in the morning we'll have the priest out from Touggourt. Sanda's Catholic. He'll marry us and we'll start on together." "Couldn't we," the girl rather timidly ventured the suggestion, "couldn't we go to Touggourt? There must be a church there if there's a priest, and I I'd like to be married in a church."
She had come without stopping to rest, from Dublin to Touggourt, where father was stationed. They say it's wild there even now. It was far wilder then, more than twenty-one years ago. He nursed mother himself, scarcely eating or sleeping: not taking off his clothes for weeks. One of his aunts my great-aunt told me the story. It came to her from a friend of father's. He never spoke of it.
The caravan had still some miles of sand billows between them and Touggourt, when suddenly a faint thrill of sound, which might have been the waking dream of a tired brain, or a trick of wind, a sound scarcely louder than heart-throbs, grew definite and distinct: the distant beating of African drums, the shriek of räitas, and the sighing of ghesbahs.
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