“Well,” said Dick, “if Ras al Had fancied I would desert my friends in order to save myself, he made a mistake.”
“If you remain, you may be beheaded.”
“Unless there is some way for the whole of us to get out, I shall remain and take my chances.”
Assouan regarded Dick with evident surprise.
“It is better that one should escape than that all should be slain,” he declared.
“In order to escape, I would have to obtain some complete disguise that would enable me to pass along the streets of the city without molestation. How could I thus disguise myself?”
“Abraham, the Jew, who did so once before, could attend to that.”
“Abraham? But I could not go to his place of business.”
“I could bring him here.”
Dick’s eyes began to shine.