"Thy messenger, Saadat, behold he died of hunger and thirst, and his work became mine.

Ebn Ezra Bey came by the river...." "He is near ?" asked David impatiently.
"He is twenty miles away." "Thou camest by the desert ?" "By the desert, Saadat, as Ebn Ezra effendi comes." "By the desert! But thou saidst he came by the river." "Saadat, yonder, forty miles from where we are, the river makes a great curve.

There the effendi landed in the night with four hundred men to march hither.

But he commanded that the boats should come on slowly and receive the attack in the river, while he came in from the desert." David's eye flashed.

"A great device.