At last, they entered a straggling street.

The women looked timidly from the windows; and then, on seeing that their robes did not bear the black patches worn by the Dervishes, they broke into loud cries of welcome.
"Are the Dervishes all gone ?" Ahmed Bey asked, reining in his camel.
"They are all gone.

The last left four days ago." The sheik waved his rifle over his head; and his followers burst into loud shouts of triumph, and pressed on, firing their muskets in the air.

As they proceeded, the natives poured out from their houses in wild delight.

The Arabs kept on, till they reached the house formerly occupied by the Egyptian governor.
"I should say that you had better take possession of this, Bey.