human
Abd el Rahman?
gpt
Yea, the Apostate, answered Bara Miyan.
human
At last, Allah hath delivered him to us of El Barr.
gpt
Thou hast used a heavy hand on the Apostate, O Sheik.
human
We of Jannati Shahr do not anoint rats' heads with jasmine oil. Tell me, Frank, how many men hast thou?
gpt
Three-and-twenty, is it not so?
human
Yea, it is so. Tell me, Bara Miyan, this whole pyramid--
gpt
Skulls, yea.
human
This is the Pyramid of Ayeshah that I have heard strange tales of?
gpt
The Pyramid of Ayeshah.
human
No myth, then, but reality, the Master commented, fascinated in spite of himself.
gpt
Even as the famous Tower of Skulls at Jerba, in Tunis!
human
Thou hast said it, O Frank. Here be more than ten-score thousand skulls of the enemies of Islam, of blasphemers against the Prophet, of those who have penetrated the Empty Abodes, of those who have sought to carry gold from El Barr. It is nearly done, this pyramid. But there still remain three-and-twenty vacant places to be filled.