They were fully armed beneath their rough pilgrims' robes, even to the bucklers which had been hidden in their baggage.

Also the saddle-bags of carpet which Masouda had given them were packed with such things as they must take, the rest having been handed over to her keeping.
Presently the door opened, and a young man stood before them clothed in the rough camel-hair garment, or burnous, which is common in the East.
"What do you want ?" asked Godwin.
"I want you, brothers Peter and John," was the reply, and they saw that the slim young man was Masouda.

"What! you English innocents, do you not know a woman through a camel-hair cloak ?" she added as she led the way to the stable.

"Well, so much the better, for it shows that my disguise is good.

Henceforth be pleased to forget the widow Masouda and, until we reach the land of Al-je-bal, to remember that I am your servant, a halfbreed from Jaffa named David, of no religion--or of all." In the stable the horses stood saddled, and near to them another--a good Arab--and two laden Cyprian mules, but no attendant was to be seen.