Not now." "Why dost thou hide this from Kaid, O thou brother of the eagle ?" "For my gain and thine, keeper of the gate.

To-night I am weak, because I am poor.

To-morrow I shall be rich and, it may be, strong.

If Kaid knew of this tonight, I should be a prisoner before cockcrow.

What claims has a prisoner?
Kaid would be in my brother's house at dawn, seizing all that is there and elsewhere, and I on my way to Fazougli, to be strangled or drowned." "O wise and far-seeing! Thine eye pierces the earth.