Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 228
d con-duct to the sheik he sought. At the sheiks tent he .stopped only to tieabout his neck a white handkerchief, the tokenof his desire to atone with his life for the lifehe had taken. Without raising his eyes, Sha-heen bowed himself to the ground then pros-trated himself before the sheik. I am… … 700 A FORGIVENESS OF THE DESERT calm which comes only to the dwellers in soli-tude. To him the law of the desert cried to beavenged: an eye for an eye, a life for a life.Yet here, prostrate before him, was confessionfull and free, surrender unconditional. The spirit of noblesse oblige belongs to…
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