" asked the sheikh as soon as we stood alone.

It proved to be approaching footstepsthe sheikh of the mosque again, leading the man from Trichinopoli and a party of three friends.

Then doth their sheikh cast ashes upon his beard and rend his garments.

"Since when does the word of a Damascene exclude an honourable sheikh from a mejlis in El-Kerak?" asked Anazeh, standing in the doorway.

Grim said to him in English; and with that, rather than argue the point and risk a scene, he followed the sheikh up the steps and disappeared.

" The first thing Goodenough did after Grim had sent Narayan Singh off on his deadly mission was to summon the sheikh of the Dome of the Rock.