His business, of which Ebn Ezra Bey had due knowledge, had now been with Nahoum.

The business of the other Arab, a noble-looking and wiry Bedouin from the South, had been with Ebn Ezra Bey, and each hid his business from his friend.

Abdullah murmured to himself as David passed--a murmur of admiration and astonishment.

He had heard of the disfavour in which the Inglesi was; but, as he looked at David's face with its quiet smile, the influence which he felt in the desert long ago came over him again.
"By Allah," he said aloud abstractedly, "it is a face that will not hide when the khamsin blows! Who shall gainsay it?
If he were not an infidel he would be a Mahdi." To this his Bedouin friend replied: "As the depths of the pool at Ghebel Farik, so are his eyes.

You shall dip deep and you shall not find the bottom.