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Show Benchaillal stretched his arm out towards the spaces of the desert. "Will you come with me-there?" "He'll find my room empty! He'll come back!" The Spahi looked at her for a moment. Then he said, coldly: " Go and wash your face in the river, madame. And then we can speak together. At present it is useless." Lady Wyverne stared for a moment, as if she did not comprehend what he had said. But the tears dried on her cheeks. And after an instant she turned from him obediently, went to the river-bank, and bent down over the running water. X drHE sun was up, bathing -:; desert in its beams, but gorge of El - Akbara was still "' shadow when Lady Wyverne, stole along the road by the trees, passed through the ga in the wooden fence, and entered court-yard of the inn. She was very ' I pale, and looked furtively around I her, then upward swiftly to the winr; l~l dow of her husband's bedroom. It ·~ was shut and the green persiennes • hid the glass. She crossed the court' · yard quickly and tried the front door. The handle of it seemed to her to 1 turn almost of itself. She understood why when, as she pushed the 133 |