"Dr.Lombardo owed us all a debt, and he has paid it.

This is Kismet! Control yourself, Major.

The price of such brave adventure--is often death." They lifted out the limp form, and carried it away to the cabin Dr.
Lombardo had occupied, there to wait some opportune time for burial in the desert.

Mecca, in the meanwhile, was already fading away to north-westward.

The heat-shimmer of that baked land of bare-ribbed rock and naked, igneous hills had already begun to blur its outlines.
The white minarets round the Haram still with delicate tracery as of carved ivory stood up against the sky; but of the out-raged people, the colonnades, the despoiled and violated Ka'aba, nothing could any more be seen.
Southward by eastward sped _Nissr_; and with her now was departing the soul of Islam.