THE JEWEL HOARD Men do strange things, at times, when confronted by experiences entirely outside even the limits of imagination.

At sight of the perfectly overwhelming masses of wealth that lay there in square pits chiseled out of the solid gold, most of the Legionaries reacted like men drunk or mad.
The hoard before them was enough to unbalance reason.
Leclair began to curse with amazing fluency in French and Arabic, while his orderly fell into half-hysterical prayer.

Bristol--stolid Englishman though he was--had to make a strong effort to keep his teeth from chattering.

The two Italians, one with an ugly wound on the jaw, burst out laughing, waving their arms extravagantly.

Simonds shouted jubilation and began to jump about in the most extraordinary fashion.