The best of our poor tribe. Again that eye?

An. [After a pause springs to his neck.] Djabal,

in this there can be no deceit!

Why, Djabal, were you human only,—think,

Maani is but human, Khalil human,

Loys is human even—did their words

Haunt me, their looks pursue me? Shame on you

So to have tried me! Rather, shame on me

So to need trying! Could I, with the Prefect

And the blood, there—could I see only you?