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At last Khy-Khevan, the Chief of Ithera, who had brought Forder to the Jowf, said that he must go back, and Forder, who had now learned what he wished about the Jowf, and had put the books of the Gospel into the hands of the men, decided to return to his wife and boys in Jerusalem to prepare to bring them over to live with him in that land of the Arabs.
"If you value your life," went on the stranger, "you will get out of this as quickly as you can, or the men, who are a bad lot, will kill you. I am a Druze but I pretend to be a Moslem." "What sort of a man is the Chief of Ithera?" asked Forder. "Very kind," was the reply. So the friendly stranger went out. Forder listened carefully to the talk.
The camels were rushed together in a group: the men of Ithera fired on the robbers and went after them. After a short, sharp battle the robbers made off and the men settled down where they were for the night, during which they had to beat off another attack by the robbers. Forder said, "What brave fellows you are!"
So at last he lent him two of his own servants to lead him to Ithera an oasis four hours' camel ride across the desert. So away they went across the desert and in the late afternoon saw the palms of Ithera. "We have brought you a Christian," shouted the servants as they led Forder into a room full of men, and dumped his goods down on the floor. "We stick him on to you; do what you can with him."
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