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As Mrs Ar to Mecca," he said "You see those bundles? The poor things will be away for "

The blindhis small and vicious eyes upon Mrs Arel got into the carriage, and the train moved slowly out of the station Mrs Armine stared at thehis hyht His expression was actively wicked Yet he was starting at great expense with infinite hardships before him, to visit and pray at the Holy Places She re

"What strange people they are!" said Nigel

"Yes, they are very strange"

"One can never really know thereat stone wall of their faith To-day all the world seee We too, Ruby!"

Even at Sennoures, when they got down, the station was crowded, and the air was alive with hymns Ibrahim met them, and Hamza was outside the fence with the donkey for Mrs Ar eyes held a flame But when he saw Mrs Armine, his voice ceased, and he looked at her in silence As she greeted hiled sensation of fear and of relief He was a link between her and Baroudi, yet he looked a fatal figure, and she could never rid herself of the idea that soer, would coh him

As they left the station and rode towards the palrew less, but even when they cari the wrinkled trunks, through the rich, rankly growing herbage, over the running waters, to ion about their nomad's home

But after sunset the voices died away The train had carried the pilgri the alleys of Sennoures, the crowd dispersed to their homes

And a silence fell over this opulent land, which already Mrs Armine hated

She hated it as a woman hates the place which in her life is substituted for the place where is the rasped her and holds her fast, whatever the dividing distance between theht, as she sat in the tent, she saw before her the orange garden that bordered the Nile, the wild geraniue about the pavilion of bamboo, she heard the loud voice of the fellah by the shadûf Was it raised in protest or warning? Did she care? Could she care? Could any voice stop her fro the voice that called her on? And as it in Baroudi that made his summons to her so intense, so arbitrary? What was it in hioverned her so completely? Now that he was far away she could ask herself a question that she could not ask when she was near him