text:  "I do " was the father's reply: "it is the head of one who fasted and prayed; may the curse of Allah fall on it if he who slew him is a better man than he!" But though Musa was thus arrested in the last stage of his conquering career so complete was the prostration of the Christians that the viceroys who succeeded Abdulaziz overlooking or disregarding this yet unsubdued corner of Spain at once poured their forces across the Pyrenees seeking new fields of conquest and glory in the countries of the Franks