Thou hast saved me from the shadow and the dust.

I am thy slave." His eyes were like a child's, wide and confiding.
He turned towards the door, and was about to open it, when there came a knocking, and he stepped back.

Hylda drew down her veil.

David opened the door cautiously and admitted Mizraim the Chief Eunuch.

Mizraim's eyes searched the room, and found Nahoum.
"Pasha," he said to Nahoum, "may thy bones never return to dust, nor the light of thine eyes darken! There is danger." Nahoum nodded, but did not speak.
"Shall I speak, then ?" He paused and made low salutation to David, saying, "Excellency, I am thine ox to be slain." "Speak, son of the flowering oak," said Nahoum, with a sneer in his voice.