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Updated: May 22, 2025
It only required to be slightly shifted as the horseman and camel-rider changed place, so as to keep them within its field of view. By this means our adventures were able to mark their approach and note every movement they made, without much risk of being seen themselves.
A man sprang forward, and the lash fell again and again on Timokles' prostrate body, but the boy did not stir. "Now see how the Christian would die in the desert, and cheat us of all the work he might do!" grumbled the vexed voice of a dismounted camel-rider. "He is young. There are many years of work in him!" "Leave him!" scornfully advised another, who held a torch. "Some beast will find him."
"Nay, but he shall go with me to Carthage," asserted a third, from the height of his camel's back. "Carthage knoweth what to do with Christians!" "Who art thou that thou shouldest own the Christian?" demanded the first, angrily gazing up at the presumptuous rider. "Did I not find him?" The mounted camel-rider laughed, and tossed something toward the irate speaker.
As soon as he had done so, he placed his eye to the glass, and in a cautious whisper announced that both the horseman and camel-rider were within his "field of view." The tube of the telescope, firmly embedded in the sand, kept its place without the necessity of being held in hand.
Suddenly they were startled by a mighty voice that seemed to travel far into dark and lonely caverns of the sky. Like a trumpet-call it resounded over the gloomy hills -that cry of the camel-rider: "Where is he that is born king of the Jews?" Vergilius whispered, his awe returning: "They are coming those men who rode the camels."
Far better luck awaits us, however, farther along. Sighting an Eimuck camel-rider in the distance, one of the sowars gives chase and halts him until we can come up. Slung across his camel he has a skin of doke, the most welcome thing one can wish for under the circumstances. Everybody helps himself liberally of the refreshing beverage, shrinking the Eimuck's supply very perceptibly.
The man caught the object, a ring of gold, containing a scarabaeus. "Take it," said the giver to the appeased rival. "The Christian is mine." The unconscious Timokles was taken up at a sign from the camel-rider to one of his servants, and the cavalcade proceeded on its way. As his camel paced forward, Pentaur, the purchaser, glanced back twice or thrice.
As Pentaur, for that moment, thought of the dread hour when, after death, according to Egyptian belief, he should stand before the judgment-seat of Osiris, the camel-rider felt convinced that he would have merl which might stand him in good stead in that ordeal. Little by little, Timokles regained consciousness. He marveled to find himself carried. He had expected to be killed where he fell.
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