"As you please!"
"You don't forget that the mosques are closed to me as a Christian?"
The Consul-General reflected for a moment and then said—
"Where's Fatimah's son, Hafiz?"
"With his regiment at Abbassiah."
"Take him with you—take two other Moslem witnesses as well."
"I'm to bring this new prophet back to Cairo?"
"That's it—bring him here—we'll do all the rest."
"What if there should be trouble with the people?"
"There's a battalion of British soldiers in Alexandria. Keep a force in readiness—under arms night and day."