to anything."

"It looks about ten miles away."

"More than eighty."

The sun went down behind us while we watched, and here and there
the little scattered lights came out among the silent hills in
proof that there were humans who thought of them in terms of
home.

Venus and Mars shone forth, yellow and red jewels; then the
moon, rising like a stage effect, too big, too strongly lighted
to seem real, peering inch by inch above the hills and ushering
in silence. We could hear one muezzin in Jerusalem wailing that
God is God.

"That over yonder is savage country," Grim remarked. "I think
maybe you'll like it. Time to go now."

He said nothing more until we were scooting downhill in the car
in the midst of a cloud of dust.

"You won't see me again," he said then, "until you get to El-
Kerak. There are just one or two points to bear in mind. D'you
care if I lecture?"

"I wish you would."

"When the messenger comes from ben Nasir, go to the Governorate,