"A certain Ishmael Ameer, preaching in the great mosque at Alexandria, the cradle of all disaffection."
"An Alim?"
"A teacher of some sort, saying England is the deadly foe of Islam, and must therefore be driven out."
"Then he is worse than the journalists?"
"Yes, we thought of the viper, forgetting the scorpion."
"But is it certain he is so dangerous?"
"One of the leaders of his own people has just been here to say that if we let that man go on it will be death to the rule of England in Egypt."
"The Grand Cadi?"
The Consul-General nodded and then said, "The cunning rogue has a grievance of his own, I find, but what's that to me? The first duty of a government is to keep order."
"I agree," said Gordon.