"Let them be shot, and at once," growled the Sheik.
"I crave a boon," said Bouchardy. "We have cured your painful foot, and we have the right to ask a boon."
"If it be nothing that interferes with your death before the edge of the sun touches the horizon it shall be granted."
"It is that we be shot with my revolver, and I be allowed to load it."
The revolver was loaded, and the Sheik himself stepped forth and aimed it at Bouchardy.
Bang!
"Ha! ha!" laughed Bouchardy, and opening his mouth, he dropped out the bullet.
Bang! went a second chamber of the revolver.
"Ha! ha!" laughed Bouchardy again, and again he dropped a bullet from his mouth.
"Ha! ha!" chuckled a big dromedary at the right of the Sheik, and the man turned in startled fright and fired at the animal.