Yet I cannot understand it.

The play is dark.

Is he not an Oriental ?" "He is a Christian." Kaid laughed sourly, and clapped his hands for the slave.
In a moment David and Nahoum were gone.

"Nahoum, a Christian! Bismillah!" murmured Kaid scornfully, then fell to pondering darkly over the evil things he had heard.
Meanwhile the Nubians in their glittering armour waited without in the blistering square..