"A man—a hand——" Arlee gasped1 incoherently.
"Good Lord, what is it?" said a voice so near at hand that both were startled.
"Burroughs!" ejaculated Billy. "Is it you—Burroughs?"
"Yes, it's I, Burroughs," the owner of the voice retorted irritably2. "And who the deuce are you?"
"Hill—Billy B. Hill," came the jubilant answer, and "Billy be damned!" said the astonished voice, with sudden joviality3, and a dark shape strode up to them. "What on earth are you doing here? And what about that firing? Think I was a robber bold?"
"Well, there are three robber sneaks4 outside that we are hiding from, so I wasn't sure.... Great C?sar, old scout5, but I'm glad to see you! That puts us out of the woods at last.... It's the excavator friend," he added, turning to Arlee. "Burroughs, I present you to Miss Beecher. She and I have been having a thoroughly6 impossible adventure."
"Let's have a little light upon these introductions," returned the excavator, and a click was heard, and a light jumped out overhead, flooding the tunnel-like place with brightness. In its beams the three stood staring queerly at each other.
Arlee saw a slim, wiry young American, in rough khaki clothes stained with work, a browned, unshaven young man with sleepy looking eyes and a mouth like a steel trap.
What the excavator saw was more surprising. There was his friend Billy, whom two weeks before he had seen off on a Nile steamer returning to Cairo, in tropic splendor7 of white serge and Panama hat, now a scarlet8 spectacle of sunburn and dirt, in most disgraceful tweeds, and beside him what Burroughs took to be a child in tatterdemalion white, a silky, fluttering white, which even his untrained observation knew was hardly elected for desert wear. The little girl's hair was hanging tangled10 over her shoulders, and was much the color of the sand with which her face was coated, and underneath11 that coating he saw that she was red as a peony with sun and wind. They were a startling pair.
Gravely, with unchanging eyes, he acknowledged the introduction, and then, "What's this about robbers?" he went on. "What kind of a yarn12 are you putting over?"
"Nothing I want put over on the general public." Billy was thinking very hard. "You're going to be our salvation14, Burroughs, but even to you—well, I'll put it briefly15. We were having a desert ride and some Turkish fellows who have annoyed her before chased us. There are our camels, just outside. And you can see one of the fellows on horseback keeping watch. The others are somewhere about.... And now, for heaven's sake, get us a drink of water."
Burroughs walked to the door of the tomb and looked out an instant, then he turned and went toward the back, returning with a small native jar full of water.
"I've no glass, but if you can manage this——?" he said to Arlee, and she clutched the cool pottery16 with two hot little hands and, murmuring a quick affirmative, she put it to her lips.
Then she held it out to Billy.
"I suppose—we mustn't—-drink as much as we want."
"I couldn't," said Billy, after a grateful swallowing. "I'd drain the Nile.... Got a camp here?"
"Yes. You'd have seen my men any other time of day, but we knocked off a while out of the sun," Burroughs explained. "I've rigged up this tomb as living quarters while I'm here. Now what do you want me to do? Would you like a guard?"
"We'd like a guard and a bath and cold cream," said Billy joyfully17. "And then we'd like dinner and donkeys."
Burroughs grunted18.
"Umph—I should say you'd one donkey already in your party—careering around the desert with a little girl like this," he vouchsafed19, and Arlee's eyes widened at his brusque nod at her. She was staring about her now with a curious interest, for all her aching tiredness, gazing wonderingly at the dazzling white walls with their strange and brilliant paintings. She saw they were in a long, deep chamber20, from which other openings led to unimagined deeps.
"I guess you never were in a place like this before?" Burroughs inquired, and she shook her head dumbly, feeling suddenly too spent for words.
"Can she get a rest here?" said Billy anxiously. "We've had the devil of a ride."
"The place is all hers," returned Burroughs. "I'll send you some food and cold cream—you mustn't wash that sunburn, you know, or you'll be a sorry girl to-morrow—and then you can rest as long as you like. How much of a hurry are you in?" he added to Billy.
"Well, we want to take a train to Luxor to-night. I suppose Girgeh's the next station?"
"You suppose? You are at sea—where did you start from, anyway?" But hastily Burroughs sped from that inquisitive21 question. "Balliana is your next station," he reported. "You've all the time you want, and I'll take you over myself. Now make yourself as comfortable as you can," he added to Arlee, handing her a big jar of cold cream and lugging22 forward an armful of rugs. "I'll be back with some food in a jiffy."
"You're very kind," Arlee spoke23 stanchly, but as soon as the two men stepped from the tomb, she seemed to wilt24 down into the rugs and lay there, too tired to stir.
Outside Burroughs blew sharply on a whistle, and from the mouth of another cave a file of black boys in ragged25 robes made a straggling appearance. Burroughs gave orders which resulted in a kindling26 of fire and the opening of boxes, and then he walked back to where Billy was surveying the weary camels. At a distance, like an equestrian27 statue, the watching horseman was standing28. Burroughs stared hard at the distant Nubian, then stared harder at Billy.
"This is wonderful luck," Billy said to him, very soberly. "I didn't think of you as nearer than Thebes."
"We just heard of some fresh finds here, so I'm combing over the tombs.... But you—it's none of my business, Billy, but what in hell are you doing racing29 over Egypt with a ten-year old kid?"
"Ten-year-old—Great C?sar, man, that's a real girl! She's grown up! She's old enough to vote—or nearly."
Burroughs stared harder than ever.
Then, "I shouldn't call that an extenuating30 circumstance," he mentioned wryly31.
"Extenuating nothing! Look here, let me——"
"You needn't tell me anything, you know," Burroughs suggested in great indifference32.
"Oh, shut up!" Billy spoke with deep disgust. "You've got to help us out of this and then forget the whole business." He paused a moment; then, "Miss Beecher made the mistake of taking a rash ride with me. She was traveling alone, to meet some friends, to Luxor—and the indiscretion is entirely33 mine, you understand. I got her into it. And then, as I said, a Turkish fellow, that had been making himself objectionable by following her, got his men out after us and chased us down here. Her trunks have gone on to Luxor where those friends are, and we have to find some presentable wraps for her and get her to the first train. Verstehen?"
"Grasped—and forgotten," said his friend laconically34. Just for an instant his sleepy gaze touched Billy's rugged35 face, then fell casually36 away. "I suppose any comments that occur to me are superfluous37?" he pleasantly observed.
"Completely.... And, Lord Harry38, but I'm glad to see you!"
"Same here." Burroughs gave Billy's arm a friendly grip and Billy spun39 fiercely about on him. "Don't you do that again!" he warned. "Take the other one. That's got a—a scratch."
"A scratch? One of those fellows wing you out there? Let me have a look——"
"No, it's all right—it's nothing——"
"Let me see, you old chump——"
"It's all right, I tell you. It's been taken care of—it's just a relic40 of Cairo."
"Cairo!" Slowly Burroughs let fall the hand he had laid upon Billy's arm. "You do seem to be having a lively trip," he commented, grinning. "Here, hurry up, you rascals41, hurry up with that big jug42."
Taking the large jar from them, he returned to the tomb, stopping abruptly43 at sight of Arlee's weary abandon. She half sat up, a frail44, exhausted45 little figure, whose grace was strangely appealing through all her sandy dishevelment.
"Some water—for washing," he stammered46.
"You're very thoughtful."
"I'll have to beg your pardon," he blurted47, for Burroughs was no squire48 of dames49. "I thought you were a little girl and spoke to you as if——"
"It's just the hairpins50 that make the difference, isn't it?" said Arlee, with a whimsical smile. "I don't suppose you have any of those in camp that I could borrow?"
He shook his head regretfully. Then his brain seized upon the problem. "Bent51 wires?" he suggested. "I might try——"
"Do," she besought52. "I'll be grateful forever."
He withdrew to make the attempt, and in his place came Billy with a tray of luncheon53.
"Just—put it down," Arlee said faintly. "I'll eat—by and by."
Worriedly Billy looked down on the girl. Her eyes closed. Excitement had ebbed54, leaving her like some spent castaway on the shores. He dropped on his knees beside her, dipping a clean handkerchief in the jar of cold cream.
"Just let me get this off," he said quietly. "You'll feel better."
Like a child she submitted, lying with closed eyes while with anxious care he took the sand from her delicate, burning skin. He did the same for her listless hands; he brushed back her hair and put water on her temples; he dabbed55 more cold cream tenderly on the pathetic little blisters56 on her lips.
"I'm—all right." The blue eyes looked suddenly up at him with a clear smile. "I'm—just resting."
"And now you'll eat a bit?"
Obediently she took the sandwich he made for her, and lifted her head to drink the cup of tea.
"I'm a—nuisance," she murmured.
"You're a brick!" he gave back, with muffled57 intensity58. "You're a perfect brick!"
Then he backed hastily out of her presence, for fear his stumbling tongue would betray him—or his clumsy, longing59 hands—or his foolish eyes. He felt choking with the tenderness he must not express. He ached with his Big Brother pity for her, and with his longing for her, which wasn't in the least Big Brotherly, and with all the queer, bewildering jumble60 of emotion that she had power to wake in him.
Very silently he returned to Burroughs, and when he had made a trifle of a toilet and eaten far from a trifle of lunch, the two young men stretched themselves out in the shade, just beyond the entrance of the tomb, conversing61 in low tones, while around them the labor62 song of Burroughs' workmen rose and fell in unvarying monotony, as from a nearby hole they carried out baskets of sand upon their heads and poured the contents upon the heap where the patient sifters were at work.
Burroughs talked of his work, the only subject of which he was capable of long and sustained conversation. He dilated63 upon a rare find of some blue-green tiles of the time of King Tjeser, a third dynasty monarch64, and a mummy case of one of the court of King Pepi, of the sixth dynasty, "about 3300 b.c.," he translated for Billy, and then suddenly he saw that Billy's eyes were absent and Billy's pipe was out.
In sudden silence he knocked out the ashes from his own pipe and slowly refilled it. "Congratulations," he ejaculated, and at Billy's slow stare he jerked his head back toward the tomb. "I say, congratulations, old man."
"Oh!" Billy became ludicrously occupied with the dead pipe.
"Nothing doing," he returned decidedly.
"No? ... I thought——"
"You sounded as if you had been thinking. Don't do it again."
"And also I had been remembering," said Burroughs, with caustic65 emphasis, "knowing that in the past wherever youth and beauty was concerned——"
So successfully had that past been sponged from Billy's concentrated heart, so utterly66 had other youth and beauty ceased to exist for him, that he greeted the reminder67 with belligerent68 unwelcome.
"I tell you it was all an accident," he retorted irritably. "There's nothing more to it.... Hello, our horseman is coming this way again!"
Grateful for the interruption to this ticklish69 excursion into his sacred emotions, he jumped to his feet and went out to meet the man who was riding slowly toward them, the two others in his train. Burroughs went with him, and a brief parley70 followed.
"He says," Burroughs translated, "that these are his camels and he is going to take them away. He says you stole them from him at Assiout."
"That's right," Billy confirmed easily. "He can have 'em," and Burroughs, vouchsafing71 no comment on this curious development, gave the message to the Nubian. Then he turned again to Billy. "He wants: the money for their hire."
"For their——! Of all the dad-blasted, iron-clad cheek! You just tell him for me that he'll get his 'hire' all right if he hangs around me. Tell him I'll have him arrested for molesting72 and robbing travelers; and tell him to tell his master that if he shows his head near an English girl again I'll have him hanged as high as Haman—and shot to pieces while he swings! The infernal scoundrel——"
Whatever work Burroughs made of this translation it sent the sullen73, inscrutable-looking fellow off in silence, his followers74 leading the recovered camels.
"And may that be the last of them," said Billy B. Hill, in fervent75 thanksgiving. "Except Kerissen. I've got to meet him again—just once."
Perhaps it was the hairpins. Perhaps it was the bathed face and the sleep-brightened eyes and the rearranged gown. But certainly Burroughs stared in amazement76 at the slim little figure that issued from the entrance, and a queer, a very queer confusion seized upon him. Not even outrageous77 sunburn and pathetic blisters could hide Arlee's young loveliness. They only added an utterly upsetting tenderness to the beholder78, and a most dangerous compassion79.
And just as each man is smitten80 with madness after the manner of his kind, so Burroughs, the taciturn, was struck into amazing volubility. As they sat about a cracker81 box of a table at an early supper, he became a perfect fount of information, pouring out to this girl an account of his diggings that would have astounded82 any of his intimates, and would surely have amazed Billy B. Hill if that young man had been in a condition to notice his friend's performances. But he was wrapped in a personal gloom that had descended83 on him like a cloud of unreason. The escapade was nearly over. The little girl comrade was gone, the little girl whose face he had so tenderly scrubbed of its grimy sand. A very self-possessed young lady was sitting beside him, drinking her coffee, an utterly lovely and gracious young lady—but unfathomably remote—elusive....
Perhaps, again, it was the hairpins.
Off to town on donkey back the three Americans rode slowly, a native escort filing after, and there in town the bazaars84 yielded a long pongee dust coat and a straw hat and a white veil, "to escape detection," Arlee gaily85 said, and a satchel86 which she filled with mysterious purchases, and then, clad once more in the semblance87 of her traveling world, safe and sound and undiscovered, she stood upon the station platform, awaiting the train to Luxor.
Beside her, two very quiet young men responded but feebly to the flow of spirits that had amazingly succeeded her exhaustion88. Burroughs was suddenly suffering from a depression most unfamiliar89 to his practical mind, which caused him to moon about his work for days and made his depleted90 jar of cold cream a wincing91 memory, and Billy was increasingly glum92.
It was all over now. The girl, who for two winged days had been so magically his gypsy comrade, was returning to her own world, the world in which he played so infinitesimal a part. For very pride's sake now he could never force himself upon her ... as he might before ...
He stared down at her eagerly, hopefully, for a sign of regret at the ending of this strange companionship, much as a big Newfoundland might watch for a caress93 from a cherished but tyrannic hand, but not a scrap94 of regret was evidenced. She was as blithe95 as a cricket. Her only pang96 was for discovery.
"You're sure," she murmured as Burroughs left them to interview the station clerk, "you're sure they'll never know?"
"I'm positive," he stolidly97 responded. "Just stick to your story."
"The Evershams won't question—they are never interested in other people," she mused98, with thankfulness. "But Mr. Falconer——"
"Won't have a doubt," said Billy firmly. His gloom closed in thickly about him.
It was a local, a train of corridor compartments99. In one, marked "Ladies Alone," Arlee was ensconced, with an Englishwoman and her maid, and two pleasant German women, and in another Billy B. Hill sat opposite some young Copts and lighted pipe after pipe. When the train started out on the High Bridge across the Nile to the eastern bank, he came out in the corridor to look out the wide glass windows there, and found Arlee beside him.
"How do you do?" she said brightly. "How nice to meet accidentally like this—you see, I'm rehearsing my story," she added under her breath.
"Let's see if you have it straight," he told her.
"I arrive on a local which left Cairo this morning.... Did I come alone?"
"You'd better invent some nice traveling friend——"
She shook her head in flat refusal. "I won't. I'm not equal to inventing anything. It's bad enough now to—to tell the necessary lies I have to." The brightness left her face looking suddenly wan13 and sorry. "I suppose it's part of my—punishment—for my dreadful folly," she said in a low tone.
"It's just part of the coin the world has to be paid in for its conventions," Billy quickly retorted. "Don't let it worry you like that—in a day no one will think to question you."
"I know—but—it's having the memory always there. Always knowing that there is something I can't be honest about—something secret and dreadful——"
She was staring unseeingly out the window, her soft lips twitching101.
"The Egyptians were a most sensible people," said Billy. "They drew up a list of commandments against the forty-two cardinal102 sins, and one of them was this, 'Thou shalt not consume thy heart.' That is a religious law against regret—vain, unprofitable, morbid103, devastating104 regret. And you must take that law for your own."
"Th—thank you." The low voice was suspiciously wavery. "I—you see, I haven't had time to think about it till just now—we've been going so fast——"
"And the best thing that could have happened. And now that you have the time to think, you mustn't think weakly. It was just a nightmare. And it's over."
"Just a nightmare.... And it's over," she repeated. Her eyes lifted to Billy's in a look of ineffable105 softness and wonder. "It's over—because you came."
"I want you to forget that." The young man spoke with cold curtness106 in his effort to combat the wild temptation of that moment. "I only did what anyone else in my place would have done—to have accomplished107 it is all the gratitude108 I want. Please don't speak of it to me again. You must forget about it."
"Forget—as if I could help being grateful as long as I live!"
"But I don't want you to be grateful. It—it's obnoxious109 to me!"
She was as blankly hurt as a slapped child. Then she looked away, a little pulse in her throat beating fast. "Then I won't—try to thank you," she answered in a very small voice, and stared harder and harder out the window.
Billy felt that he had accomplished a tremendous stride. "A feeling of obligation kills a friendship," he told her didactically, "and I want you to be really my friend."
"I am." Her voice was distinct, though queerly lack-luster. And she did not look at him again.
He went on: "The Evershams will be in on the boat about seven. From the station I'll take you straight to the boat, where your stateroom is surely being kept for you. Then to-morrow your trunks will arrive from Cook's, and by the time you are through resting, you will be ready to sally out and meet the world.... I hope my own trunk will make its appearance, too," he added. "I telegraphed the hotel to pack my things and send them on."
She made no comment on the obvious haste with which he had left Cairo. She said slowly, "I want to do a little mathematics now. What is the shocking sum I owe you?"
He shut his lips in an obstinate110 line. After a moment she added, "I can't take that, you know."
It struck him as a trifle ludicrous that dollars were so important among all the rest, but unwillingly111 enough he understood.
"Won't you just let it stand as it is?" he said under his breath. "Let me have the whole thing—please."
"I can't."
"You mean you won't?"
"I can't," she repeated inflexibly112, and then, with a childish flash, "Since you dislike me to feel grateful—I should think you would be glad to let me reduce the debt."
"All right." He spoke gruffly. "Then you owe me what you spent just now and what your railroad ticket cost. Not a cent more. For what went before I am absolutely responsible, and I decline to let you pay my debts."
This time he was inflexible113. She repeated, with a spark of resentment114, "It's not fair to let you pay so much——"
"It was my adventure," said Billy firmly.
She said, "Very well," in a voice that puzzled him. He felt she was annoyed. And he realized more than ever that he could never take advantage of her indebtedness to make her pay with her companionship. It was becoming a queer tangle9.... He felt they had suddenly slipped out of tune115.... She seemed to be escaping him—withdrawing ...
He wondered, very unhappily, with no fine glow of altruism116 at all, if he had rescued her for another man. Those things happened, they happened with dismal117 frequency. Billy distinctly recalled the experience of a college friend who had carried a girl out of a burning hotel, to have her wildly embrace an unstirring youth below. Yes, such things happened. But he had never contemplated118 having anything like that happen to him.
He contemplated it now, however, contemplated it long and bitterly, when Arlee had gone back to her compartment100 and he sat silent in his beside the chattering119 Copts while the train rattled120 on and on. There would be three days at Luxor before the boat proceeded upon its southern journey. And then——
Three days.... Three miserable121, paltry122, insufficient123 days, blighted124 by the chaperoning Evershams.... Frantically125 he hoped against his dark foreboding that one menace at least might be averted—that by now Luxor would have ceased to shelter a certain sandy-haired young Englishman.
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