The devils guard it.

May Allah twist their tails! Look--see! We shoot, but the bullets miss the mark each time!" -- ------ * What chatter is this?
-- ------ "Perhaps you haven't prayed enough to exorcize the devils ?" I suggested, and he dropped the butt of his rifle on the ground to consider the proposition.
"Out of the mouth of an unbeliever has come wisdom before now," he said.

"There may be truth in that." And he called all his sons and grandsons there and then to spread their mats and pray toward Mecca, performing the prescribed ablutions first with water from one of the goatskin bags.
Well, there wasn't any further use in trying to keep our movements secret.

Grim beckoned me to where he stood beside Narayan Singh, with Ayisha looking mischievous in the gloom behind them, and issued final instructions.
"Present my compliments and these gifts to Ali Higg--I'm busy at prayer, remember--and say how greatly honored we feel to have escorted his wife across the desert.

If he asks where her four men are, tell him I'll bring them later.