“Have you ever been in Abyssinia?” inquired Burt.

“No, and I don’t want to go there.”

“What have you against the country?”

“It is not the country, but the people who live there.”

“What about them?”

“They are rather too hot for my blood, that’s all,” replied Barry. “A man’s life is not worth much with them chaps.”

“Is Henry Stolburst dead?”

“Do you suppose Ajeeb would tell me if he killed him?”

“You are very deep in this heathen priest’s confidence.”

Barry smiled.