They will be here by midnight, then, perhaps ?" "At midnight, Saadat, by the blessing of God." "How wert thou wounded ?" "I came upon two of the enemy.

They were mounted.

I fought them.

Upon the horse of one I came here." "The other ?" "God is merciful, Saadat.

He is in the bosom of God." "How many men come by the river ?" "But fifty, Saadat," was the answer, "but they have sworn by the stone in the Kaabah not to surrender." "And those who come with the effendi, with Ebn Ezra Bey, are they as those who will not surrender ?" "Half of them are so.