He took a seat among the cushions, and, after a moment, said to Achmet, in a voice abnormally deep and powerful: "Diaz--there is no doubt of Diaz ?" "He awaits the signal.

The hawk flies not swifter than Diaz will act." "The people--the bazaars--the markets ?" "As the air stirs a moment before the hurricane comes, so the whisper has stirred them.

From one lip to another, from one street to another, from one quarter to another, the word has been passed--'Nahoum was a Christian, but Nahoum was an Egyptian whose heart was Muslim.

The stranger is a Christian and an Inglesi.

Reason has fled from the Prince Pasha, the Inglesi has bewitched him.