Your oath concerns him not.
Him you can honour and reward, according to the value you place upon my life." The Arab's face cleared.
"Truly you have discovered a way out of it, Fatma, at any rate for the present." He turned to Gregory for the first time.
"Do you speak our tongue ?" he asked.
"Yes, Emir, as well as my own." "Then you understand what we have said.

Had I not been bound by my oath, I would have embraced you as a brother.

We Arabs can appreciate a brave deed, even when it is done by an enemy.

When one of the boatmen ran into the battery where I was directing the guns against your boat, and said that the boat in which my wife, with other women, were crossing had been sunk, by a shell from our batteries on the other side, I felt that my blood was turned to water.

He said he believed that all had been killed or drowned, but that he looked back as he swam, and saw a white man jump overboard, and a short time after another followed him; and that, when he reached the shore, they were supporting a woman in the water.
"I rode hither, having but small hope indeed that it was my wife, but marvelling much that a white officer should thus risk his life to save a drowning woman.