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"Trouble with one of the horses Will you co her alone, and she slipped away to the

inner room In half-an-hour they ca, then the Vicoh The Sheik ith hiuest's ca Henri

with a nod and started to undress silently The flow of talk and ready

laugh seemed to have deserted his off with nervous irritability

The Sheik watched hiarette out of

his mouth with a faint smile "Eh, bien! Raoul, say it," he said

quietly

Saint Hubert swung round "You ht have spared her," he cried

"What?"

"What? Good God, arette with a gesture of

indifference "Your courier was delayed, he only caements"

Saint Hubert took a hasty turn up and down the tent and stopped in

front of the Sheik with his hands thrust deep in his pockets and his

shoulders hunched up about his ears "It is aboo too far, Ahhed cynically "What do you expect of a savage? When an