Dick was startled.
“Oh, you’re wrong, Brad, in thinking Assouan would play such a trick! He wouldn’t dare.”
“Why not?”
“Ras al Had is his master——”
“And Ras al Had is a fugitive himself. If caught, he will lose his head for killing Hafsa Pasha. Assouan may have feared the sheik before that happened, but fear cannot keep Assouan loyal to Ras al Had now.”
Dick realized that this was true.
“And do you fancy Assouan would carry Nadia off with the intention of selling her?”
“I fear it, partner, and that’s what’s disturbing me a plenty.”
Dick thought for some moments on what had taken place. Finally he shook his head decisively.
“I am not willing to believe that,” he declared. “Somehow, I am confident that Assouan is faithful as a dog to Ras al Had. He put himself to altogether too much trouble about us, in case he were otherwise. Even after getting Nadia and her brother out of Damascus, he turned back to look for us.”