'Are you a Mussulman?'
'No,' replied Holcroft, with a laugh.
'A Christian, then?'
'No,' was the strange response.
'You must believe either in the Prophet or Christ?'
'I believe in neither.'
'Unhappy wretch!' exclaimed the sheikh, with astonishment in his tone.
'Men may believe in both, yet follow neither.'
'So do the devils believe—and like devils tremble' said the Bedouin.
'Well, I do not.'