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+They Were Alone....+
The magic of the desert night had closed about them. Cairo,friends,--civilization as she knew it--were left far behind. She, anunbeliever, was in the heart of the trackless wastes with a man whoseword was more than law.
And yet, he was her slave!
"I shall ask nothing of you until you shall love me," he promised. "Youshall draw your curtains, and until you call, you shall go undisturbed."
And she believed him!
Do you want to see luxury beyond your imagination to conjure,--feel thesoftness of silks finer than the gossamer web of the spider--hear thenight voices of the throbbing desert, or sway to the jolting of theclanking caravan?
Egypt, Arabia pass before your eyes. The impatient cursing of the camelmen comes to your ears. Your nostrils quiver in the acrid smoke of thelittle fires of dung that flare in the darkness when the caravan halts.The night has shut off prying eyes. Yashmaks are lowered. White fleshgleams against burnished bands of gold. The children of Allah are athome.
And the promise he had given her?... let Joan Conquest, who knows andloves the East, tell you in
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_+"I have owned a hundred women!"+_ he answered defiantly.
The girl recoiled as from a blow. Was this man who paraded his conquestsbefore her the same one who had feasted so freely on her lips thatmoonlit night in Grand Canary?
She was his prisoner now. He had stolen her and brought her to hisstronghold in the desert. Her father was also a captive. Pansy Langham'slife had crashed in ruins about her. What good were her millions now?The mask had been removed. Raoul Le-Breton was the Sultan Casim ElAmmeh!--a Mohammedan!
And yet she wanted no man's kisses but his. Love for him consumed her,but race and religion stood between them.
Little did she guess that the Arab had foreseen this minute, that he hadtrailed her father, Sir George for fifteen years. The Englishman, acaptain at the time, had killed his father. Casim El Ammeh had notforgotten. Revenge was his at last!
He had intended having his way with her and then selling her as aslave--a fate more cruel than a white man could conceive. But love--anemotion an Arab scoffs at--had come to thwart him. Was he to forego hisoath of an eye for an eye, or open the doors of his harem and seekforgetfulness?
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