A hush fell upon the earth, a mighty stillness upon those two.
And then!
A little sound, soft as a bird's call at dawn, broke the silence of the sands!
And at the little sound the man sprang upright, with hands and blazing eyes upraised to heaven.
And as he stood towering over the motionless woman at his feet, the sound of rejoicing was great in the land; for over the yellow sand, tearing apart the last dim shadows of the night, up struck the sun's first golden shaft, and as it spread, piling gold upon red, and red upon gold, across the great plains and up to the very highest of high heaven thundered the Mohammedan's tumultuous, triumphant hymn of praise.
"La Allah, illa Allah! Muhammed rasul Allah!"
THE END
[Transcriber's note: The word "Amourers" in Chapter XXXIII should probably be "Armourers" (weapon makers).]
[Transcriber's note: In the "La Allah" line above, two characters are supported only in Unicode. They are the second "a" in "Allah" and the "a" in "illa", both of which should be a-macron (U+0101), and the "u" in "rasul", which should be u-macron (U+016B).]