It was a sinful, human, un-Christian motive, and yet it was about to make them public martyrs to the Christian creed.

In the hush and tension of their nerves low sounds grew suddenly loud upon their ears.

Those swishing palm-leaves above them were like a swift-flowing river, and far away they could hear the dull, soft thudding of a galloping camel.
"There's something coming," whispered Cochrane.

"Try and stave them off for five minutes longer, Fardet." The Frenchman stepped out with a courteous wave of his uninjured arm, and the air of a man who is prepared to accommodate himself to anything.
"You will tell this holy man that I am quite ready to accept his teaching, and so I am sure are all my friends," said he to the dragoman.
"But there is one thing which I should wish him to do in order to set at rest any possible doubts which may remain in our hearts.

Every true religion can be told by the miracles which those who profess it can bring about.