"How did you know-how did you know ?" he asked hoarsely.

"It's been just as you say.
You've watched some one fighting ?" "I have watched some one fighting--fighting," answered David clearly, but his eyes were moist.
"With drink, the same as me ?" "No, with opium--laudanum." "Oh, I've heard that's worse, that it makes you mad, the wanting it." "I have seen it so." "Did the man break down like me ?" "Only once, but the fight is not yet over with him." "Was he--an Englishman ?" David inclined his head.

"It's a great thing to have a temptation to fight, Soolsby.

Then we can understand others." "It's not always true, Egyptian, for you have never had temptation to fight.

Yet you know it all." "God has been good to me," David answered, putting a hand on the old man's shoulder.