It has been the way of the Romany since the time of Timur Beg and centuries beyond Timur, so it is told.

One man and all men must do as the tribe has done since the beginning." The old man pulled at his beard angrily.

"You do not talk like a Romany, but like a Gorgio of the schools." The young man's manner became more confident as he replied.

"Thinking on what was to come to me, I read in the books as the Gorgio reads.

I sat in my tent and worked with a pen; I saw in the printed sheets what the world was doing every day.