Kad'r

Irene's protests against being left behind, Royson and Abdullah, with six of the _Aphrodite's_ men, and Abdur Kad'r, at the head of thirty picked Arabs, went on at a spanking pace.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

Abdur Kad'r or Abdullah could get within striking distance, and from that hour no sensible Hadendowa came near the Well of Moses for many a month.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

Arab robes he had worn since Abdur Kad'r and he climbed the hill overlooking Suleiman's Well.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

Before Abdur Kad'r appeared he guessed why Mr. Fenshawe wanted him in such a hurry.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

He had hardly closed his eyes during two nights and three days, for the rest obtained while he and Abdur Kad'r awaited the outcome of Hussain's embassy was calculated rather to add to his physical exhaustion than relieve it.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

Abdur Kad'r, little dreaming of the train of thought he had aroused, moved on again.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

Kad'r, true son of the desert, pressed forward nimbly, since every yard gained was a yard stolen from the pursuers.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

Royson and Abdur Kad'r, flying for their lives, spurred on by the further knowledge that even if they escaped capture or death they yet had to undertake a difficult journey on tired beasts if they would save the expedition from the attack evidently meditated by Alfieri and his cohort of plunderers, the two, then -- Englishman and Arab -- rode like men who valued their necks but lightly.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

"Abdur Kad'r," he said, when a level space enabled them to walk side by side, "which of our camels is the stronger?"

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

He was so taken up with this confirmation of his views, and so eager to make clear the queer chance that led Abdur Kad'r to explain the name of the Well of Moses, that he was blind to the growing wrath in Mr. Fenshawe's face until he happened to catch the indignant note in the older man's voice as he bade a servant summon the sheikh.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895