one year, at nine percent interest. Hasib feigned delight, sprang to his cashbox and drew from it the sum named, and paid it over to the Sheikh,

thanking him for the help in the investing of his money, and reminding him that the Jadallah sheikhs had always shown favor to their protégés, the house of Nabhan. No wonder, then, if Sheikh Ajjaj condescended and obliged his protégé, the son of Nabhan, by buying from him and borrowing!

The hour of closing came, and they shut up the store, and the employees came out of it by the dozens, and Hasib's automobile arrived. The chauffeur opened its door, and Hasib motioned to the Sheikh — "If your honor will do us the honor" — and the Sheikh got in and sat on the right. The car carried them about, Hasib point-ing out to his companion the city's hotels, then saying: "It is not fitting that your honor should put up at a hotel frequented by any stranger whatever. My house, for all its lowliness, is better for lodg-ing your honor than any hotel." The tour ended, and the car stopped before the house of the watchman's son — and behold, it was a palace ringed round with gardens, with stables of horses, and automobiles, and artificial lakes, and every appearance of wealth and luxury. And behold, the garden that surrounded it was vaster than all the lands of the village of "Sahtouf." But of all this the Sheikh saw nothing. For all he knew of the world was that he was a "sheikh," and that the son of the common folk might grow rich, might get learning, might conquer and might triumph — but God had created him of the common folk, a follower to the son of sheikhs. Whose eyes, then, should these gardens and stores and servants dazzle? So did life pass for Sheikh Ajjaj and his host: when the Sheikh lacked money, he "borrowed" from Hasib; and when he needed clothes and necessities, he "bought" from the store.

In "Manila" there were some hun-dred of the "sons of the Arabs," all of whom came to Hasib Nabhan and had need of him; and having seen him honor Sheikh Ajjaj with sincerity and affection, they

showed Ajjaj respect and treated him as a sheikh. Among them-selves, however, they wondered whether there were not in the brain of that "Sheikh" a touch of madness, since a hollow, imagined grandeur had carried him to the lands of exile; and had it not been

for their respect for Hasib, they would have wondered too whether this man were not madder than the "Sheikh," since he kept fixing in the simpleton Ajjaj's brain the belief in that fantastic grandeur.

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