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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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