How could she know but that his life might be in danger; that, after all, they might have been seen leaving the fatal room?
Well, she had gone, and with all his heart he was glad that she was safe.
His judgment upon last night's event was not coloured by a single direct criticism upon the girl.

But he could not prevent the suggestion suddenly flashing into his mind that she had thought of herself first and last.

Well, she had gone; and he was here to face the future, unencumbered by aught save the weight of his own conscience.
Yet, the weight of his conscience! His feet were still free--free for one short hour before he went to Kaid; but his soul was in chains.

As he turned his course to the Nile, and crossed over the great bridge, there went clanking by in chains a hundred conscripts, torn from their homes in the Fayoum, bidding farewell for ever to their friends, receiving their last offerings, for they had no hope of return.

He looked at their haggard and dusty faces, at their excoriated ankles, and his eyes closed in pain.