I asked the renegade what had passed between them, and when he told me, I declared that nothing should be done except in accordance with the wishes of Zoraida, who now came back with a little trunk so full of gold crowns that she could scarcely carry it. Unfortunately her father awoke while this was going on, and hearing a noise in the garden, came to the window, and at once perceiving that all those who were there were Christians, raising a prodigiously loud outcry, he began to call out in Arabic, "Christians, Christians! thieves, thieves!" by which cries we were all thrown into the greatest fear and embarrassment; but the renegade seeing the danger we were in and how important it was for him to effect his purpose before we were heard, mounted with the utmost quickness to where Hadji Morato was, and with him went some of our party; I, however, did not dare to leave Zoraida, who had fallen almost fainting in my arms.
Preguntéle al renegado lo que con ella había pasado, el cual me lo contó, a quien yo dije que en ninguna cosa se había de hacer más de lo que Zoraida quisiese; la cual ya que volvía cargada con un cofrecillo lleno de escudos de oro, tantos, que apenas lo podía sustentar, quiso la mala suerte que su padre despertase en el ínterin y sintiese el ruido que andaba en el jardín; y, asomándose a la ventana, luego conoció que todos los que en él estaban eran cristianos; y, dando muchas, grandes y desaforadas voces, comenzó a decir en arábigo: ''¡Cristianos, cristianos! ¡Ladrones, ladrones!''; por los cuales gritos nos vimos todos puestos en grandísima y temerosa confusión.