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Show ,\ 1 ,, .......,u h a d seen from the veranda, talking 1~':::" ~~~ i~ busily . 1"':;~~ - >- ·i£a ----...~ The love of money in an Arab ts a j -M-~~ J..--v.·~ passion of the heart, of the mind, of '-·- • ::--~--'the whole being. Trick that love, dis- ..,""'~ .. appoint that passion, and you rouse a demon that is curiously subtle, that is persistent and revengeful, and _entirely without scruple. Benchaalal knew that, but he had been careless in his fury. For a moment he had run mad. That moment had given Achmed over to Sir Claude. Till they rode away together that afternoon Sir Claude and Achmed had remained coldly master and servant. The Arab had seen Benchaalal's burnous move when they came upcn him by the river, and had divined the truth. But he had said nothing, showed nothing. Whether Sir Claude had seen what he had seen he did not know. They had ridden on in silence to the inn. At the door Sir Claude 160 had dismounted without words, and had gone straight up- stairs. And Achmed had not followed him, but had remained below to watch for the return of the Spahi, for the return, perhaps, of another. And he had not waited in vain. WhenLadyWyverne tried the door he had been there. Then he had gone to the stables, had thrown himself down and slept. Later Sir Claude had told him to prepare for a second nocturnal expedition. And now they were off. Did his master know? He tried to read him with his one eye, as he \ talked of Barbary sheep. The hundred francs, spoken of near the salt mountain, must be in his pccket tomorrow, those and many others, ~-- enough to make him forget the lost ....__ __ money of the Spahi. His whole being was alive with determination to recoup himself. But when he ·,_--. ~o~ed at Sir Claude's hard face he |