12/31 Make Mecca a symbol to him, make it live for him as a place of pilgrimage. You could, perhaps, because you have seen with your own eyes, and you know." "I can try, of course," said Hatch with a shrug of his shoulders. "But isn't there a danger--if I succeed? Are the Mohammedans beyond the frontier such a very quiet people that you are anxious to add another to their number ?" Ralston was prepared for the objection. Already, indeed, Shere Ali might be seething with hatred against the English rule. |