But you say the sheik's there?

"We well know that you have committed no crime," said the sheik.

"He can," said the sheik, "for you, Mohammed, will accompany him."

"Yes, and bringing the doom of Rome-sosays the sheik."

"I see no cause for triumph," said the sheik, calmly.

"Mohammed," said the sheik, after a pause, "you must accompany your young friend Osman."

"Good horse," said the sheik, patting the dark-brown cheek.

"Return, Masa," said the sheik, in an unfaltering voice.

"Why," said the sheik, "the fact is simply IMPOSSIBLE!

"Yes," said the sheik, fingering his beard nervously.

"It knows the way," said the sheik, smiling.

"I was summoned in the name of the tschorbadji," said the sheik, looking with astonishment at Mohammed.

"It is well," said the sheik, softly.

"Some traveler may have fallen sick," said the Sheik, "and be left on the sand to die."

"What!" said the sheik to Ben-Hur.

"Now return quietly to your houses, and wait to see what the tschorbadji will do," said the sheik.