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Two Arabs left the rear of Shepheard's, one slightly taller than the other, both striding very fast

"Re steps You are ayour arms naturally"

"I should have learned this trick a long tio," Julie answered

The Great Mosque swarmed with the faithful as well as tourists who had coht of devout Moslems in worship on their knees Julie and Sah the crush of tourists Within lasses, in his flohite robes

Samir placed a key in Ramses' hand He whispered the address and the directions Ra walk

He and Julie moved on, with Ramses a few paces behind

Ah, she liked this one, who called hie voice They rode along together in the horse-drawn "taxi" carriage, aer afraid

Before they'd left the "railway station" she'd realized that the big iron chariots pulled people about Just a coe

This one was not as elegant as Lord Rutherford, by anyquite sis as he spoke She knehat was a Ford automobile, and a Stutz Bearcat, and also a little roadster This s in America He was a merchant of Ford auto machines

She clutched the canvas bag he'd bought her, which held the money and the bits of paper with OPERA written on them

"And this here is where the tourists live," he said to her, "more or less I mean, this is the British sector"

"English," she said

"Yes, but all the Europeans and A there--that's where all the best people stay, the British and the Americans, that's Shepheard's, the hotel, if you knohat I mean"

"Shepheard's--the hotel?" She gave a little laugh

"That's where the opera ball's going to be to I don't much like opera"--he made a little face--"never did much care for it But here in Cairo, well, this is an i, you see"