Candidly, I am enjoying myself immensely."
"Then there is nothing more to be said," cried Irene, yielding somewhat
to his buoyancy. "Shall we go on, or wait here for the _kafila_ to
overtake us."
"Unless I am greatly mistaken," said Dick, looking at his watch, "we
shall find the usual oasis hidden in a depression about two miles
ahead. Our excellent sheikh, Abdur Kad'r, times the morning march to
end precisely at ten o'clock. It is now a quarter to nine. Our camels
march two and a half miles per hour, and we are three quarters of a
mile ahead. Therein, Miss Fenshawe, yea have a first-rate example of
deductive reasoning, so I propose that we advance steadily, and look
for a cluster of palms. If, happily, their shade is not taken up by
other wanderers, you will be out of the sun long before the caravan
arrives. What say you?"
"Some day I shall stamp my foot and say 'No'--shriek it at you, in
fact. I hate any one who is always right, and you seem to be utterly
different since we left the _Aphrodite_.
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