Atlantida by Pierre Benoit
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is hardly two hundred kilometers. It is a quasi-classic route[6] as
short again as the one that I shall have to take alone, after I leave you, from Shikh-Salah to Timissao. That is in part, you see, the reason which has made me decide to...." [Footnote 6: The route and the stages from Tit to Timissao were actually plotted out, as early as 1888, by Captain Bissuel. _Les Tuarge de l'Ouest,_ itineraries 1 and 10. (Note by M. Leroux.)] "In part? In very small part," I replied. "But is your mind absolutely made up?" "It is," he answered me. "When do you expect to leave me?" "To-day. The road which Eg-Anteouen proposes to take into Ahaggar crosses this one about four leagues from here. I have a favor to ask of you in this connection." "Please tell me." "It is to let me take one of the two baggage camels, since my Targa has lost his." "The camel which carries your baggage belongs to you as much as does your own mehari," I answered coldly. We stood there several minutes without speaking. Morhange maintained an uneasy silence; I was examining my map. All over it in greater or |
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