"This woman thou didst so foully wrong, even when thou didst wrong her, she was a leper." A low cry broke from Achmet, for now when death came he must go unclean to the after-world, forbidden Allah's presence.

Broken and abject he listened.
"She knew not, till thou wert gone," continued Kaid.

"She is innocent before the law.

But thou--beast of the slime--hear thy sentence.

There is in the far desert a place where lepers live.