"'What is your name?' to which he replied, 'Ahmet.'
"'And your father's name?' again asked the keeper. 'Abdullah.'
"And the prophet signed with his hand that he might enter.
"I then went to the gate where Jesus stood, and heard the same questions put to an applicant. He told the keeper that his name was Aristide, and that his father's name was Vassili, and Jesus permitted him to enter.
"Hearing a loud knocking at Mohammed's gate again, I hurried to see who the important comer was. There stood a man of confident mien, who proudly answered that his name was Hussein Effendi.
"'And your father's name?' asked the keeper. 'Abraham,' replied Hussein. At this Mohammed said: 'Shut the door; you can't enter here; mixtures will not do.'"
"Eh! What happened next?" asked the Turk.
"Just then, as the gate was shutting, I heard your voice and I awoke, Pasha Effendi," answered the Jew; "and so I can't tell you."
And as they approached the Scala (landing), they disembarked at Scutari and separated without a word.