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B. L. Van Vors<br >ms had supervised Koreans who had labored with<br >aipment to build it. A German electrical firm had<br >~ountless needlelike microwave emergency towers<br >the highway every ten kilometers like digits on an<br >,ng ruler.<br >appeared silver in the distance, shimmering in the<br >eat. Although the refineries at Sedemi on the coast<br > excess of tar and asphalt, the road had been built<br >Only the best for Khalid. The world was watching.<br >ad heard that the cost had been in excess of four<br >Enough money, as bin Khagi the camel trader had<br >a wonder, to pave the streets of Paradise with gold.<br > east a car was approaching, a determined ant on<br > concrete. Watching its slow progress, a sharp,<br >~adness overcame Raisuli. It was f mished, he knew.<br >Ly and the approaching automobile were symbols<br >: completion of a cycle, the final end of an age.<br >his age. He saw now why he had so long put off<br >journey.<br >teither anger nor bitterness, instead, a longing for<br >ff which he knew not the nature came to him with<br >ity, it made his body tremble and brought tears to<br >es. The feeling was at once both overwhelmingly<br >yet poignantly familiar.<br >it, when the tears had dried and the trembling eased,<br >Magnificent turned away from the road. He had<br >Le had come for. He understood the import of what<br >d, but he also knew that, though drawing to a close,<br >s in the woddwas not yet finished. Slowly, so as<br >erbate the stiffness in his right leg, he mounted al<br >Chapter 1<br >"Awad, stop the car!"<br > Miriam always kept a strong pair of Leica field glasses in<br >the utility compartment of what had once been the limousine s<br >bar. Distances were great in the Sahara, and they had come in<br >useful more than once, though this time she was not sure why<br >a lone Bedouin on a horse had caught her interest so. She had<br >tried the glasses while the car was moving, but there was not<br >enough light coming through the heavily tinted windows, and<br >even on the smooth surface of the new highway, ninety miles<br >all hour made focusing difficult.<br > "! Awad, the grizzled Nubian driver she had inherited from<br >h~r mother-in-law, looked startled but kept his silence, slowing<br >the,,~N, :car until it stopped underneath an aluminum emergency<br >telephone tower. The towers were an eyesore, but Khalid had<br >been right to install them, Miriam thought. With modern au-<br >tomobiles and air conditioning it was easy to forget that just<br >outside the safety glass windows, the temperature could reach<br >one hundred and forty degrees in summer, hot enough to kill<br >a man in a few short hours if he hadn t water or shade.<br > It had been different with the old macadam road, parts of<br >which could still be seen between the dunes, when the shifting<br >sands permitted. Miriam never would have taken the limousine<br >lit<br ><br >
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Prince and the Sufi pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024