"You've seen it?"
"Yes. My boat was tied up just opposite to it the night before I started up river."
"Oh!"
"Perhaps you'll be kind enough to give the order to the Reis to start for Luxor as soon as possible?"
"Very well," she said, indifferently.
Her whole look and manner now were curiously indolent and indifferent. Before she had been full of fiercely nervous life. To-day it seemed as if that life was withdrawn from her.
"I'll tell him now," she said.
And without any more questions she went away to the deck.
Soon afterwards there was a stir. Cries were heard from the sailors, and the Loulia began to move, floating northwards with the tide. When Nigel asked the reason, Isaacson said to him:
"This place is too isolated for an invalid. One can get at nothing here. You will be much more at your ease in your own home, and I can take better care of you there."