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Then above the cla inside and out she heard

Saint Hubert's voice shouting, and with a shriek that seemed to rip her

tortured throat she called to him The Sheik, too, heard, and with a

desperate effort for a moment won clear, but one of the Nubians was

behind him, and, as Saint Hubert and a crowd of the Sheik's own ht down a heavy club with

crashing force on Ahmed Ben Hassan's head, and as he fell another drove

a broad knife deep into his back For a few

feet surged backward and forward over the Sheik's prostrate body Diana

tried to get to hi, struggling ht her and drew her

aside She strained against the detaining arrowing faintness came over her

Mistily she saw Saint Hubert clear a way to his friend's side, and then

she fainted, but only for a few moments Saint Hubert was still on his

knees beside the Sheik when she opened her eyes, and the tent was quite

quiet, filled with tribes in stoical silence The camp of

Ibraheim Omair had been wiped out, but Ahure of their leader