Should you decide to come, leave word here with the American Colony.

They will get word to me.

Then I will send for you, and the escort shall meet you at the Dead Sea." I talked it over with two or three members of the Colony, and they assured me the promise could be depended on.

One of them added: "Besides, you ought to see El-Kerak.

It's an old crusader city, rather ruined, but more or less the way the crusaders left it.
And that craving of theirs for a school is worth doing something about, if you ever have an opportunity.