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So, there is no explanation about how they came to arrive just in time. The tramping of many feet brought us up short. I turned to behold the pasha’s palace guard, twenty men armed with swords and rifles, no mercy on their faces. Behind them came the four cavalrymen I’d taught, who looked as grim as the guards.

In the middle of a pile of sandy gravel the glimmer of gold, bright blue of lapis, and the blood-red fire of rubies winked up at me.

I was the first human eye to see them for centuries. The thought made me shiver in awe, but also humbled me.