Sandy got very keen.
'It is possible enough.

Indeed, I've been expecting it, though I'm hanged if I can imagine what card the Germans have got up their sleeve.
It might be any one of twenty things.

Thirty years ago there was a bogus prophecy that played the devil in Yemen.

Or it might be a flag such as Ali Wad Helu had, or a jewel like Solomon's necklace in Abyssinia.

You never know what will start off a jehad! But I rather think it's a man.' 'Where could he get his purchase ?' I asked.
'It's hard to say.