"Give the order!" Rachel was nearly pleading, "we must save Abraham; all our lives are at stake. The future of Zionism is at stake."
"Stay still and keep quiet!" Selkirk whispered urgently. He tried to judge the respective speeds of both parties, the family of Arabs with their camels and the steadily increasing column of Turkish troops. Benjamin had told him there would be a maximum of a hundred soldiers and ten wagons, but already there was twice that number of Turkish infantry, and still, they marched around the bend of the road. Unless he gave the order soon, the advance guard would be level with his end stop, compromising the whole ambush.
"Signal sir," Crosier sounded as calm as if he was on exercise on Salisbury Plain, "ten wagons and two hundred and fifty infantry plus five mounte
