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days; had, through mischance, been separated from
the caravan with which they journeyed thence; had
been befriended by the nomad Kirghiz, had waited
ten days for our coming, and for another ten days
had now been our patient, courteous companions.
Each rode a stout pony, which must carry also a
twenty days' provision of bread and tea, and such
thick clothing as was not permanently worn on the
body. No daintiness in this, my lady fair, but if
your husband be full of zeal for the life to come, if
your duty and your pleasure be to follow him, and
mayhap gain heaven also, if you live in Western
China, and if Mecca lie across vast deserts, titanic
mountains, burning sands and freezing snows, then,
O lady fair, you must, like the rest of us, Hadjis
and explorers, bundle your delicate body in many
warm folds and leave it there for many cold days.
The good man had already won the green turban,
but now his soul yearned again for the sacred city,
and this time he goes to live in the shadow of the
Kaaba until his spirit shall have been caught up to
its awaiting joys, welcomed home by the compas-
sionate Prophet, whose word is the Law. And she
goes with him, a plain, brown woman, forty-five or
more, unconscious of her heroism.
She has done more for duty on earth and for hope
of heaven than you, average man or woman, may
dream of doing. Her home life was of scant com-
fort,—you would consider it hard, indeed,—but it
was languorous ease compared with the strain which
for weeks she had now uncomplainingly borne. It
is three months since she quitted some quiet shelter-
ing roof, another month or more ere they may reach
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