Since I am unclean, and am denied the bosom of Allah, shall I not go as a warrior to Hell, where men will fear me?
Speak, Saadat, canst thou deny me this ?" Nothing of repentance, so far as he knew, moved the dark soul; but, like some evil spirit, he would choose the way to his own doom, the place and the manner of it: a sullen, cruel, evil being, unyielding in his evil, unmoved by remorse--so far as he knew.

Yet he would die fighting, and for Egypt "and for thee, if it must be so.

To strike, to strike, to strike, and earn death!" What Achmet did not see, David saw, the glimmer of light breaking through the cloud of shame and evil and doom.

Yonder in the Soudan more problems than one would be solved, more lives than one be put to the extreme test.

He did not answer Achmet's question yet.
"Zaida-- ?" he said in a low voice.