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Then it had been gently placed upon the ground, and she had been handed out, to find the _sayis_ of the stallion Sooltan standing salaaming before her, with his hand on the bridle of the snow-white mare, Pi-Kay, the glory of Egypt.

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None save the _sayis_ knew she had come to the tents this night, and he was faithful and as dumb as a dog.

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El-Sooltan, connecting the _sayis_ with the bucketsful of water he stood so badly in need of, stopped short, nearly unseating Damaris with the suddenness of his decision and then with the hand of the groom upon his heaving flank trotted docilely back to the Obelisk, where

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Neither did she return for many days; nor was she seen until that dawn when her _sayis_ found her in front of the middle tent, snuffing at the closed flap.

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Followed by the dogs, they walked slowly down the incline to a mound of rubbish flung up and left by an excavating party many years back; behind it they found the stallion Sooltan in the care of his _sayis_, also the one donkey which had wandered off in search of grass and got lost, and whose absence in the cavalcade had not been noticed on account of the disorder of the descent.

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"Guide her not, lady," shouted the _sayis_ to Damaris, who answered to the movement of the mare like a reed in the wind, but otherwise seemed to take no notice of horse, or man, or moon, or untoward circumstance; he hung on for a moment to the silken mane and stared up into the girl's unseeing eyes; then, with a ringing shout, let go and jumped nimbly to one side.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

"And Well-Well will have chewed everything chewable in the car, also the legs of the _sayis_, by the time I get back," she exclaimed.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

For many days she had been ridden alternately astride and side by the _sayis_, who loved her better than his wife and almost as much as his son; ridden from the Tents of Purple and Gold -- and not over-willingly did she go -- to the Gate of To-morrow at sunset, to be taken back at a tearing gallop to the Tents, without restraining or guiding hand upon the reins, at sunrise.

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So that through a certain unromantic yearning for oats under his loosening girth, the stallion Sooltan raced Damaris back to the _sayis_ and safety.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest