Bleeding and senseless The Sheik sank to earth. Korak turned
toward the child. She had regained her feet and stood wide eyed
and frightened, looking first into his face and then, horror struck,
at the recumbent figure of The Sheik. In an involuntary gesture of
protection The Killer threw an arm about the girl's shoulders and
stood waiting for the Arab to regain consciousness. For a moment
they remained thus, when the girl spoke.
"When he regains his senses he will kill me," she said, in Arabic.
Korak could not understand her. He shook his head, speaking to
her first in English and then in the language of the great apes;
but neither of these was intelligible to her. She leaned forward
and touched the hilt of the long knife that the Arab wore. Then
she raised her clasped hand above her head and drove an imaginary
blade into her breast above her heart. Korak understood. The
old man would kill her. The girl came to his side again and stood
there trembling. She did not fear him. Why should she? He had
saved her from a terrible beating at the hands of The Sheik.
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