Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 193
ce wasdeserted, all the otherconvicts having soughtshelter in their cells.The darkness hadbecome so dense thata human form couldnot be identified tenyards away. Ach-meds attitude of im-patient waiting wasgone; he now becameabsorbed in eager ac-tion. He drew fromhis waist-cloth someointment which… … WITH EASY, STEADY MOTION, HE DRAWS HIMSELF UP, HAND OVER HAND. I9o8.] A SON OF THE DESERT 147 prepared to work his small, finely formed feet outof their bonds of iron; had his feet been shapedlike those of the Fellahin, with ugly, projectingheels, his plan would have failed; but under thestrong…
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