My head must have yielded beneath the blow." "Who struck it ?" said I, scarcely thinking what I said, for my mind was full of the camels, now flank toward us, that would have served our purpose like the gift of God could we only have contrived to capture them.
"How should I know ?" he answered.

"See--they pass within a half-mile of where I sat.

Is not that the rock ?" And I said yes.
"Had you lingered there," he said, "word about us would have gone back to Angora at top camel speed.

What possessed you to come away ?" "God!" said I, and he nodded, so that I began to preen myself.

He noticed my gathering self-esteem.
"Nevertheless," he said, aloud, but as if talking to himself, yet careful that I should hear, "had this not happened to me I should have seen those camels on the sky-line.