The figure stirred, the hand dropped from the beard and clutched the knee; but the head was not raised, and the body remained crouching and listless.
"He escaped ?" David said, turning to Ebn Ezra Bey.
"I know not by what means--a camel-driver bribed, perhaps, and a camel left behind for him.

After the caravan had travelled a day's journey he joined it.

None knew what to do.

He was not a leper, and he was armed." "Leave him with me," said David.
Ebn Ezra hesitated.

"He is armed; he was thy foe--" "I am armed also," David answered enigmatically, and indicated by a gesture that he wished to be left alone.