At sunset but one eunuch will be on watch--Mesrour; and I will find means to put him to sleep.

Abdullah will bring the princess to this garden disguised as his young son, and there you two and I shall meet them." "What then ?" asked Godwin.
"Do you remember the old Arab who brought you the horses Flame and Smoke, and took no payment for them, he who was named Son of the Sand?
Well, as you know, he is my uncle, and he has more horses of that breed.

I have seen him, and he is well pleased at the tale of Flame and Smoke and the knights who rode them, and more particularly at the way in which they came to their end, which he says has brought credit to their ancient blood.

At the foot of this garden is a cave, which was once a sepulchre.

There we shall find the horses--four of them--and with them my uncle, Son of the Sand, and by the morning light we will be a hundred miles away and lie hid with his tribe until we can slip to the coast and board a Christian ship.