I say nothing," he answered.
Anazeh put in the next five minutes minutely examining every face within range, while the din of argument rose louder and more violent than ever, and suspicion of me seemed to be gaining.
But suddenly Suliman ben Saoud got to his feet and there was silence.

They were all willing to listen to a member of the Ichwan sect, for the news of its power and political designs had spread wherever men talk Arabic.

He spoke gutturally in a dialect that ben Hamza did not find it any too easy to follow, so I only got the general gist of Grim's remarks.
He said that he had much experience of raids and of making preparations for them.

A raid aimed at the Zionists--at this moment--might be good--perhaps.

They were better judges of that than he.