Farther and farther I rode, and lo! I was no longer mocked; for I came to
a goodly place of water and trees, and was saved. So shall it be with us.
We have looked for his coming again, and our hearts have fallen and been
as ashes, for that he has not come. Yet there be mirages, and one day
soon David Pasha will come hither, and our pains shall be eased."
"Aiwa, aiwa--yes, yes," cried the lad who had sung to them.
"Aiwa, aiwa," rang softly over the pond, where naked children stooped to
drink.
The smell of the cooking-pots floated out from the mud-houses near by.
"Malaish," said one after another, "I am hungry. He will come
again-perhaps to-morrow." So they moved towards the houses over the way.
One cursed his woman for wailing in the doorway; one snatched the lid
from a cooking-pot; one drew from an oven cakes of dourha, and gave them
to those who had none; one knelt and bowed his forehead to the ground in
prayer; one shouted the name of him whose coming they desired.
So was David missed in Egypt.
CHAPTER XXIII
THE TENTS OF CUSHAN
"I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction, and the curtains
of the Land of Midian did tremble.
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