Chapter 34

At Miss Trelawney's house

Mr. Trelawney's hope was at least as great as mine, for he is not a fickle man like myself, and prone to the vicissitudes of hope and despair; but he has a steady aim that crystallizes hope into faith, and sometimes he feared that there were two such stones, or that the adventures of Van Huyn It was a traveler's fantasy and based on some ordinary acquisition of antiques in Alexandria or Cairo or London or Amsterdam but Mr. Trelawney never faltered in his faith and we had many things on our minds about faith or infidelity and this was shortly after the Arabs, and Egypt was a safe place for travellers, especially if they are English; but Mr. Trelawney is a brave man; and I almost thought of some times that I should not be so cowardly when we gathered together a group of Arabs whom one or more of us had known on his former voyages into the desert and whom we could trust, that is, we did not trust them as much as the others, we were Many en