"I think that I will continue to host Rolf and Gretchen until after your hearing," Sheikh Hakeem said. "It would be better that way, I think. Temptation can make people behave in ways that they normally wouldn't."

"What about those two men?" Krista asked.

"Come with me," Sheikh Hakeem said, getting to his feet and leading the way out the tent and down towards the beach where they found his men digging a hole well over six feet deep, Chet and Pavel lying on the sand moaning in pain.

As they stared in shock, the sheikh's men tossed the men unceremoniously into the hole after helping the diggers out, the...