You can scarcely have been noticed yet, and I can well declare, should the Khalifa hear of you, that you have escaped." "May I speak with my master ?" Zaki said.

"If he says stay, I shall stay, though it might cost me my life.

If he says go, I must go." "You may speak to him," Mahmud said.
Zaki went round to Gregory's tent, and told him what Mahmud had said.
"Go, certainly, Zaki.

You can do me no good by remaining here, and might even do me harm; for if you were killed I also might be murdered.
Moreover, I wish to send the news of my capture, and how it occurred.

I do not think any, save yourself, noticed that I was missing; and when the fight was over, and they found that I was absent, they might suppose that I had been shot and had fallen overboard.
"I will write a note for you to carry.