And his deeds paid the price that dawn.

He is a very good man with the saber, and the saber he took from a Turkish officer was, weight and heft and length, the very image of the weapon he was used to.

Nay, who was I to count the Kurds he slew.

I was busy with my own work, sahib.
The fight below us began before the earliest color of dawn flickered along the heights.

And though we started when the first rifle-shot gave warning, hiding our plunder and mules among the crags in charge of the Syrians, but taking Tugendheim with us, the way was so steep and devious that morning came and found us worrying lest we come too late to help our friends--even as once we had worried in the Red Sea! But as we had come in the nick of time before, even so now.