Pages 105-115 Summary

He leaves for Khartoum after the circumcision ceremony for Mustafa's boys. He is thinking about Mustafa Sa'eed during the drive in the hot sun and heat. He had told Mahjoub about the room to which only he had the key. "I told him that Mustafa Sa'eed was a lie. 'Do you want to know the truth about Mustafa Sa'eed?' I said to him with another drunken laugh" (Chapter 7, pg. 107). In their drunken condition, they banter about there being gold and jewels in the room.

The next day they are out in the hot sum. A Bedouin asks for a cigarette and they give him the pack. He had been traveling for two days without any tobacco. They are looking for a place of shade to escape the heat of the sun. The car trip is hot. He keeps thinking of...