The slang expressions used by Max had raised him much in the estimation of the Persian, for he imagined the American was speaking in some language of which Ibrahim was ignorant.
“How can we get out?”
“Could you climb that shaft?” asked Max.
“No, not if my life depended on it.”
“Could you, Selim?”
The Arab was staring upward at the clear sky, and had to be asked several times before he would answer.
He shook his head, and Max shrugged his shoulders.
“I could.”
“You could climb those walls?”
“Yes; it is easy.”