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How Ahmara had run shrieking to the village, and the men, still in madness, had stolen the camels and gone off into the desert; not the murderers only, but their friends who saw that it was well to disappear, that it might never be known who were the men that saw Richard Stanton die. Two months and more ago, when the caravan left Touggourt, there were over a hundred men who marched with it.
And upon me, like cloud and fire cloud of the tombs and the great temple columns, fire of the brilliant life painted and engraved upon them there stole the spell of Egypt. I do not find in Egypt any more the strangeness that once amazed, and at first almost bewildered me. Stranger by far is Morocco, stranger the country beyond Biskra, near Mogar, round Touggourt, even about El Kantara.
This was unprecedented for the wedding of great personages that the end of the entertainment should take place in the douar; but it was said that the bride was ill with over-excitement, and rather than put off the marriage, her father had decided to try the effect of desert air. This was the news which was told to Max at the Agha's gates after his forced march from Touggourt.
He's chosen Touggourt for his starting-place, because the railway has just been brought as far as there. And there's a man in Touggourt an old Arab explorer he wants to persuade to go with him if he's strong enough.
Angus and Hamish will take care of me, and I'll wait for you at Touggourt. I can amuse myself in the market-place, and looking at the Ouled Naïls, till you find Miss Ray, or " "There won't be an 'or, Lady MacGregor. We must find her. And we must bring her to you," said Stephen.
As for Lella M'Barka, the Rose of the West need not fear, for the bassour was easy as a cradle to a woman of the desert; and M'Barka, rightfully a princess of Touggourt, was desert-born and bred. Queer little patches of growing grain, or miniature orchards enlivened the dull plain round the ugly Saharian town of Djelfa, headquarters of the Ouled Naïls.
The first three angels were men, but the fourth and best is the angel woman who sows the heaven with stars, for lamps to light her own desert, and all the world beside, even the world of infidels." M'Barka and Maïeddine both talked a great deal of El Aghouat, which M'Barka called the desert pearl, next in beauty to her own wild Touggourt, and Maïeddine laughingly likened the oasis-town to Paris.
The French officer was at the hotel for the night; the Arab was dining with him, but instead of resting, would go on with his horse and a Negro servant who, it seemed, had been waiting for several days, since their master had passed through Touggourt on the way to Algiers. "Then he didn't come from El Aghouat," said Nevill. "Where is he going? Did you find out that?" "Not for certain.
"I have heard a great deal about Miss Ray in Algiers," Margot went on. "And I think you will both understand why I made this long, tiresome journey to Touggourt." "There is no reason why Miss Ray should understand," said Stephen quickly. "It can't concern her in the least. On your own account it would have been better if you had waited for me in London. But it's too late to think of that now.
But an Arab servant who talks French, says he believes they're bound for a place called Oued Tolga," Paul replied, delighted with the confidence reposed in him, and with the whole adventure. "That means three days in the dunes for us!" said Nevill. "Aunt Charlotte, you can practice Patience, in Touggourt." "I shall invent a new game, and call it Hope," returned Lady MacGregor.
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