'Do you feel no trust in God?'
'None!' was the blunt and defiant reply.
'Why?'
'He has always left me to myself.'
Allan sighed at this hopeless response, while the blasphemy of it filled the Bedouin—who, whatever his shortcomings in the way of meum and tuum were, was pious in his way—with horror and indignation. After a pause, he said,
'Look at his eyes—they are grey; and does not the Koran say that on the last day "we shall gather the wicked together having grey eyes."
The twentieth chapter certainly has that curious remark, for with the Arabs—a black-eyed race—to have grey eyes is the mark of an enemy or a person to be avoided.
'You knew this man in Frangistan!' said Zeid.
'Too well,' replied Allan.
'Then he has wronged thee?' was the sharp question and suspicion of the Bedouin.