e veil."

He put the revolver back into his pocket, and sat down again quietly.

"And that's why they call me Fin Tireur."

I said nothing, and sat staring at him.

"When the camels had been watered the caravan went on."

"But--but the Arabs------"

"The Caid had the body tied across a donkey--they told me."

"You didn't see?"

"No. I took the little one in. She was screaming, and I had to see
to her. It was two days afterwards, when I was at the market, that a
scorpion stung her. She was dead when I came back. Well, m'sieu, are you
sorry you ate your supper?"

Before I could reply, the door opening into the courtyard gaped, and the
driver entered, followed by a cloud of whirling sand grains.

"_Nom d'un chien!_" he exclaimed. "Get me a tumbler of wine, for the
love of God, Fin Tireur. My throat's full of the sand. _Sacre nom d'un
nom d'un nom!_"

He pulled off his coat, turned it upside down, and shook the sand out
of the pockets, while Fin Tireur went over to the corner of the kitchen
where the bottles stood in a row against the earthen wall.

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