But here was David safe and sound.

Was it, then, some deeper scheme of future vengeance?
The Oriental instinctively pierced the mind of the Oriental.

He could have realised fully the fierce, blinding passion for revenge which had almost overcome Nahoum's calculating mind in the dark night, with his foe in the next room, which had driven him suddenly from his bed to fall upon David, only to find Mahommed Hassan watching--also with the instinct of the Oriental.
Some future scheme of revenge?
Kaid's eyes gleamed red.

There would be no future for Nahoum.

"Why did Nahoum go to thee ?" he asked again presently.
"That I might beg his life of thee, Highness, as I said," David replied.
"I have not ordered his death." David looked meditatively at him.