Haxton came to be such a close acquaintance of El Jaridiah's. Not only
had he risked his life when he fancied she was in danger, but she, on
her part, was willing to return with him to Massowah under cover of the
night--to Massowah, whence she had fled in terror not many hours
earlier.
CHAPTER XI
A WOMAN INTERVENES
When Mrs. Haxton descended the yacht's gangway, and seated herself in
the boat which had brought Abdullah from the shore, she threw a main
with fate. But she was acting with her eyes open, whereas poor
mortality is oft called on to take that dangerous hazard blindfold.
During several haggard hours she had weighed her prospects in the scale
of judgment, and the balance was wofully unfavorable. Wealth she had
none; and now she saw position slipping away also. As sure as the sun
would rise next day, so sure was it, as matters stood then, that
exposure and humiliation must arrive. To this hard, level-headed,
shrewd woman there was no blinking the outcome of an official inquiry.
Alfieri was in Massowah, Alfieri, the man she had wronged as Delilah
wronged Samson.
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