We are satisfied to leave past and future to speculations of idle dreamers.

For us the present.
So we attach no value to the fact that Feisul is descended in a straight line from the founder of the Moslem faith; for that is a superstition as foolish in its way as Christianity or any other creed.

But who is there like Feisul who can unite all Arabs under one banner ?' "They answered, sahib, that Feisul is the only living man who can accomplish that, making many assertions in his praise, Yussuf Dakmar nodding approval as each spoke.

'Yet,' said he when they had finished, 'Feisul is also fallible.

In certain ways he is a fool, and principally in this: That he insists on keeping his own promises to men who have broken their own promises to him.' And like pupils in a class who recite their lesson, they all murmured that such a course as that is madness.
"'So,' said he, 'we are clear on that point.