betray it. If we had gone over to HAMET, when he first declared against
his brother, he would have received us with joy, and probably have
rewarded our service; but I know, that his virtue will abhor us for
treachery, though practised in his favour: treachery, under the dominion
of HAMET, will not only cover us with dishonour, but will probably
devote us to death.'

In this reasoning, Caled could not but acquiesce; he felt himself
secretly but forcibly reproved, by the superior virtue of Osmyn: and
while he regretted his having made a proposal, which had been rejected
not only as imprudent but infamous; he concluded, that Osmyn would ever
after suspect and despise him; and he, therefore, from a new cause,
conceived new enmity against him. They parted, however, without any
appearance of suspicion or disgust; and, in a short time, they were in
circumstances very different from their expectations.





VOLUME SECOND



CHAP. XI.


ALMORAN had now reached the gallery; and when the multitude saw him,
they shouted as in triumph, and demanded that he should surrender.
HAMET, who also perceived him at a distance, and was unwilling that any