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Show .. _..:..:_~ _,~~- something .• He-~ew::~:theyw~~~ . ~~-··i ed to do. At that moment t heyI o ng- 1~"3~- · i'~ ~.; ed to kill the woman they had so i > :--"~-:.often caressed. , ._ He looked down at them with a ., . ~~sort of dull wonder. The wonder had never quite left him since then. Now he walked on again slowly, mounting over the uneven ground towards the great rock from which he would be able to see the three villages of El-Akbara. When he reached it the sun had gone down, but there was still some red in the western sky. He sat down upon the rock and looked over the desert. He meant to descend presently, but he must rest for a moment. He must think, or try to think. He felt horribly tired both in body and in mind. As he looked out upon the desert again the sense of utter loneliness, of ••• immense desolation came over him. He fingered his gun mechanically as he sat there. In the distance, among the great, tufted palm-trees, he saw thin trails of smoke rising from the African houses, tinybirds-theywere doves, but he did not know it-circling about a brown minaret, that from this height looked black, some camels creeping along the road towards the south. Beside the camels little hooded men walked swiftly. These hooded men were of the race of the Spahi, of the dark-blooded \ Oriental race. A sort of sickness came upon Sir Claude. Kitty was bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh, yet now there was a ~ gulf between them. He was on this, ~.the hither side of it. She was upon the farther side, the side where the dark races swarmed beneath the tor~~~ fricansun . Secretly, in the night, |