"Are you he whom I expect?"
"I am he whom Allah sent."
"Have you the sacred signal?"
"Look!" replied the stranger, throwing his bernouse aside and showing his lean, naked breast, and on his brown breast shone a star with six points.
The saint got off his horse, kissed the ground, and muttered half aloud:
"Allah is Allah, and Mahomet is his prophet."
"Rise," said the other; "the true believer only kneels to Allah."
"Are you not Allah's messenger? Have you not come to chastise the infidel oppressors of the holy island?"
"I am he, but yet I say rise. The brothers know that I am here. They knew I would appear in the fourth month, at the hour when the moon rose before the setting sun had disappeared from the horizon. The brothers, then, have sent you?"