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"Well, thank God that the time has come to act, though how we are to set about it is more than I can say." "Doubtless time will show. As our uncle bade, we will seek out this Sheik Jebal "
Thence, since it was not safe for us to stay in the East, we took ship and came safe home, bearing this ring of Jebal with us, for I would not give it up, as his servants demanded that I should do, except to him alone.
There is money for your faring in my chest, but go alone, with no company, for in time of peace these would betray you. Godwin, draw off this ring from my finger, and with it as a token, find out Jebal, the black sheik of the Mountain Tribe at Masyaf on Lebanon. Bid him remember the vow he made to Andrew D'Arcy, the English knight.
If any can aid you, it will be Jebal, who hates the Houses of Nur-ed-din and of Ayoub. So, I charge you, let nothing I say nothing turn you aside from seeking him. "Afterwards act as God shall guide you.
They have ever taken great pains to conceal their tenets, which seem to be compounded from Mohammedanism and Paganism, and it is only a portion of themselves that know what the tenets are. Those are called the Akkâl, or initiated; the others are the Jebal, or uninitiated. Four centuries and a half after the death of the founder of the sect, it became powerful under a single chief.
"How is that lord named?" asked Godwin. "Sinan," she answered, and they noted that she looked round quickly as she spoke the word. "Oh," he said, "we thought the name was Jebal." Now she stared at him with wide, wondering eyes, and replied: "He is so called also; but, Sir Pilgrims, what know you of the dread lord Al-je-bal?" "Only that he lives at a place called Masyaf, which we wish to visit."
One whole family connection of eighty individuals declared their readiness to pledge their property as security that they would never apostatize from the Christian faith; and had it been in the power of the mission to secure to them the political standing of Christian sects, and had the brethren been disposed to favor a national conversion, after the example of the early and middle ages, it is probable that the whole body of the Jebal Druzes, at least, would have become nominal Protestants.
You know it," and holding up his hand, Sir Andrew showed them a heavy gold ring, in which was set a black stone, with red veins running across the stone in the exact shape of a dagger, and beneath the dagger words cut in unknown characters. "So in my plight I bethought me of Jebal, and found means to send him a letter sealed with his ring.
"Now, as it chanced, I had a friend, a dark and secret man named Jebal, the young sheik of a terrible people, whose cruel rites no Christian understands. They are the subjects of one Mahomet, in Persia, and live in castles at Masyaf, on Lebanon.
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