Kaid will turn against you; for with my failure will come a dark reaction in his mind, which feels the cloud of doom drawing over it.

Without me, with my work falling about his ears, he will, as he did so short a time ago, turn to Sharif and Higli and the rest; and the only comfort you will have will be that you destroyed the life of him who killed your brother.

Did you love your brother?
Nay, not more than did I, for I sent his soul into the void, and I would gladly have gone after it to ask God for the pardon of all his sins--and mine.

Think: I hid the truth, but why?
Because a woman would suffer an unmerited scandal and shame.
Nothing could recall Foorgat Bey; but for that silence I gave my life, for the land which was his land.

Do you betray it, then?
"And now, Nahoum, the gulf in which you sought to plunge me when you had ruined all I did is here before me.