For bethink thee, sheik, in every four there is one the slowest and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.
It was so to-day; the driver could not reduce the best to harmonious action with the poorest.

My trial may have no better result; but if so, I will tell thee of it: that I swear.

Wherefore, in the same spirit I say, can I get them to run together, moved by my will, the four as one, thou shalt have the sestertii and the crown, and I my revenge.

What sayest thou ?" Ilderim listened, combing his beard the while.

At the end he said, with a laugh, "I think better of thee, son of Israel.