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The Black Box

CHAPTER XI
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I recognised it at once.

There are a thousand like it, you would think, in the bazaars there.
In reality there may be, perhaps, a dozen more in all Egypt which are genuine." They all looked at one another.

Their relief had grown too poignant for words.
"Early start to-morrow," Quest reminded them.
"Home and bed for me, this moment," Laura declared.
"The camels," the Professor assented, "will be round at daybreak." Lenora, a few nights later, looked down from the star-strewn sky which seemed suddenly to have dropped so much nearer to them, to the shadows thrown across the desert by the dancing flames of their fire.
"It is the same world, I suppose," she murmured.
"A queer little place out of the same world," Quest agreed.

"Listen to those fellows, how they chatter!" The camel drivers and guides were sitting together in a little group, some distance away.

They had finished their supper and were chattering together now, swaying back and forth, two of them at least in a state of wild excitement.
"Whatever can they be talking about ?" Laura asked.


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