El Reshid; A Novel (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1899 Excerpt: ... "I am dumb with gratitude. Yours forever, "Aleppo Romanes." He deposited the message in the secret receptacle and, when morning arrived, discovered that it had vanished. CHAPTER XXXIII. SATAN. From the time that the first notes were exchanged between Regan and Aleppo a constant correspondence had been kept up and all arrangements made for the young man's escape. Regan and Sallus were obliged to work secretly and mostly in the dark, for the alley was constantly traversed by individuals whose attention was more or less attracted to them. The night for which the escape had been planned was propitious; a drizzling, disagreeable rain was falling, the clouds above causing the alley to be shrouded in darkness. Sallus allowed himself about an hour and a half for the filing of the bars; at some distance from him, on either side, Regan and Isaac acted as sentinels, and, by a pre-arranged signal, stood in readiness to warn him of the approach of danger. The dogs of that special locality had become so accustomed to the three prowlers that they united themselves with them as friends and allies, feeling a secret kinship which they strove silently to express. Sallus expected to work from midnight till after one in the morning, when, as had been previously arranged, Aleppo was to break the thick window pane and make good his escape from the house of Issachar. When Romanes heard the first rasp of the file, he thrilled with the ecstasy of liberty. He had climbed upon the boxes, placed his ear to the glass, and for an hour had remained almost rigid before any sound was heard. He felt sure that he had failed in comprehending the time, as he had no means by which to do so, save that of instinct, he rightly conjectured the cause of delay. Yet his anxiety was so intense that he t...