East and West were here one.

He lighted it, though smoking warily.

The noble sheik, of undoubtedly Asiatic origin, came to the doorway overlooking the assistant director's work on the narghileh.

A laden camel halted near him, sneered in an evil manner at the bystanders, and then, lifting an incredible length of upper lip, set his yellow teeth in the nearest shoulder.

It was the shoulder of the noble sheik, who instantly rent the air with a plaintive cry: "For the love of Mike!--keep that man-eater off'n me, can't you ?" His accent had not been that of the Arabian waste-land.