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The material is various boulders of granite and syenite; squares of trap and porphyry; the red sandstones of the Hisma; the basalts of the Harrah; and the rock found in situ, a brown and crumbling grit, modern, and still in process of agglutination.
When Bruce's turn came Harrah sat at his desk like an expectant ogre; there was that in his attitude which seemed to say: "Enter; I eat promoters." His eyes measured Bruce from head to foot in a glance of appraisement, and Bruce on his part subjected Harrah to the same swift scrutiny.
This projection will remain in sight until we reach Shuwak; and in places we shall see it backed by the basalts and lavas of the straightlined Harrah. Like yesterday's, the loose red sand is Hisma; and it is also scattered with Harrah lava. After a four hours' ride we halted to enable the caravan to come up.
She murmured, with a smile of amusement, as Sprudell laid the telegram down: "Here, coming in the lead, is our unfailing news supply Winfield Harrah. You've heard of him no doubt. Behind him, the big one that huge chap with the black eyes, is the mysterious Samson from the West who whipped the 'Spanish Bull-dog. 'The Man from the Bitter Roots' I think they call him."
He visited the oppressed Jewish community at Sanaa in Yemen; he further discovered traces of the ancient Minaean kingdom, and found that the Jews in the Nejran were treated with singular tolerance and even favour; but he was not able to tell us anything respecting the Jews of the Harrah. C.M. Doughty was, however, more successful when visiting this district in 1875.
"Mr. Harrah has been detained and won't be here for perhaps an hour." "I'll wait," Bruce replied laconically. The office boy lingered. He fancied Bruce because of his size and his hat and a resemblance that he thought he saw between him and his favorite western hero of the movies; besides, he was bursting with a proud secret.
The doughty Rajih ibn 'Ayid, who, mounted upon a mean dromedary, affected to be chief guide, seemed to treat their pretensions as a serious matter, when we laughed them to scorn. He and all the other experts gave us wholly discouraging details concerning a ruin represented to lie, some hours off, in the nearest of the southern Harrah.
The surface is still Hisma ground, red sand with blocks of ruddy grit, washed down from the plateau on the left; and, according to Furayj, it forms the south-western limit of the Harrah. The valley is honeycombed into man-traps by rats and lizards, causing many a tumble, and notably developing the mulish instinct.
They called him "The Man from the Bitter Boots," and a staff artist depicted him as a hairy aborigine that Winfield Harrah had had captured to turn loose on the Spanish gladiator. Which humor Bruce did not relish, for Sprudell's taunt that "muscle" was his only asset still rankled.
To discharge the crew and telegraph his failure to Helen Dunbar, Harrah and the rest, then to watch the lumber dry out and the cracks widen in the flume, the rust take the machinery and the water-wheel go to ruin that's what going back meant taking up his lonely, pointless life where he had left it off, growing morbid, eccentric, like the other failures sulking in the hills.
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