“And living happily among our own people, doing what we can for them. You think you can be happy, Cyril?”

“Don’t ask me to make rash declarations. At least I can say that, in view of ending my days at Sitt Zeynab, I am—content.”

THE END.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

Sydney C. Grier was the pseudonym of Hilda Caroline Gregg.

This book is part of the author’s “Balkan Series.” The full series, in order, being:

An Uncrowned King
A Crowned Queen
The Kings of the East
The Prince of the Captivity

Alterations to the text:

Punctuation corrections: quotation mark pairing.

Note: minor spelling and hyphenization inconsistencies (e.g. wofully/woefully, lifelong/life-long, newspaper-man/newspaper man, etc.) have been preserved.