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We must find her . And we must bring her to you , '' said Stephen . He had slept in the carriage the night before , a little on the Biskra side of Chegga , because Maïeddine and the French officer had rested at Chegga . Nevill and Lady MacGregor had started from Biskra at five o'clock that morning , having arrived there the evening before . It was now ten , and they could make Touggourt that night . But they wished Maïeddine to reach there first , so they stopped by the chott , and lunched from a smartly fitted picnic-basket Lady MacGregor had brought . Stephen paid his Arab coachman , told him he might go back , and transferred a small suitcase -- his only luggage -- from the carriage to the car .