A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 53: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN. ~ 45 and down by a gorgeously dressed ‘‘ sais,” or groom, and galloped after the brougham, casting as he did so a look of such malignance at Frederick shat the latter, taken by sur- prise, did not even retain enough presence of mind to make any attempt to follow the carriage. For several days in succession Frederick made a point of spending his afternoons inriding round Gezireh in the hope of obtaining another glance at the beautiful Hanem; but she did not put in an appearance, and the young man had almost forgotten the incident, when one morning, while riding along the road which Khedive Ismail, with truly oriental gallantry, had caused to be constructed from Cairo out to the Pyramids for the use of Empress Eugenie, on the occasion of her visit in 1869, he suddenly caught sight of the black horses and brougham coming slowly toward him. There was no one else in view, and the ordinarily watch- ful eunuch had taken advantage of the solitude of the spot to relax his vigilance and to lag a good way behind. Frederick was therefore enabled to gaze unhindered at the Oriental beauty. He bowed low over his horse’s mane, and was delighted to see that not only was his salutation graciously responded to, but that, moreover, the lady, rais- ing one of her small jeweled hands to her ‘‘ yashmak,” puiled it slightly aside so as to discover to his enraptured eyes a face so perfectly lovely that he was fairly staggered. She smiled enchantingly at him, and, putting the tips of her fingers to her rosy lips, motioned him away with a look full of promise. frederick would fain have drawn nearer to the carriage, but the coachman suddenly started his horses off at a sharp trot, and there was nothing for him to do but to resume his canter out to the Pyramids and to re- ceive with a smile the angry glances of his friend the eunuch, whom he passed shortly afterward. Neither the Sphinx nor the Pyramids- possessed much attraction for Frederick that day, and hisstay out at Gezireh =>) , 2) 3 Eomicbooks €oO