About fifty yards away they halted just where the stream from our spring entered the desert, and there proceeded to water the camels, twenty of them at a time.

Two men, however, in whom I recognized Harut and Marut, walked forward and presently were standing before us, bowing obsequiously.
"Good morning, Lord," said Harut to Ragnall in his broken English.

"So you come with Macumazana to call at our poor house, as we call at your fine one in England.

You think we got the beautiful lady you marry, she we give old necklace.

That is not so.