A dozen other men of the paler race had undergone the same treatment.

A sheik of great stature and noble mien smoked an idle cigarette in the doorway.

He was accoutred with musket and with pistols in his belt.
An assistant director presently herded the desert men down an alley between two of the big stages and to the beginning of the oriental street that Merton had noticed on his first day within the Holden walls.
It was now peopled picturesquely with other Bedouins.

Banners hung from the walls and veiled ladies peeped from the latticed balconies.

A camel was led excitingly through the crowded way, and donkeys and goats were to be observed.