He will offer to show me and all mankind the way to the eternal life; the beautiful pure Life of the Soul." The company sat a moment in silence which was broken by Balthasar.
"Let us arise now," he said--"let us arise and set forward again.
What I have said has caused a return of impatience to see him who is ever in my thought; and if I seem to hurry you, O son of Hur--and you, my daughter--be that my excuse." At his signal the slave brought them wine in a skin bottle; and they poured and drank, and shaking the lap-cloths out arose.
While the slave restored the tent and wares to the box under the houdah, and the Arab brought up the horses, the three principals laved themselves in the pool.
In a little while they were retracing their steps back through the wady, intending to overtake the caravan if it had passed them by..