'I agree with you,' she said.
'If we cannot give him sleep, he will soon sleep for ever.'
'Oh, give him sleep, Eva,' said Fakredeen, wringing his hands; 'you can
do anything.'
'I suppose,' said Baroni, 'it is hopeless to think of finding any opium
here.'
'Utterly,' said Eva; 'its practice is quite unknown among them.'
'Send for some from El Khuds,' said Fakredeen. 'Idle!' said Baroni;
'this is an affair of hours, not of days.'
'Oh, but I will go,' exclaimed Fakredeen; 'you do not know what I can do
on one of my dromedaries! I will----'
Eva placed her hand on his arm without looking at him, and then
continued to address Baroni.
'Through the pass I several times observed a small white and yellow
flower in patches. I lost it as we advanced, and yet I should think
it must have followed the stream. If it be, as I think, but I did not
observe it with much attention, the flower of the mountain arnica, I
know a preparation from that shrub which has a marvellous action on the
nervous system.'
'I am sure it is the mountain arnica, and I am sure it will cure him,'
said Fakredeen.
'Time presses,' said Eva to Baroni. 'Call my I maidens to our aid; and
first of all let us examine the borders of the stream.'
While his friends departed to exert themselves, Fakredeen remained
behind, and passed his time partly in watching Tancred, partly in
weeping, and partly in calculating the amount of his debts.
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