THE INNER SECRET OF ISLAM The chief handed him a pencil.

Rrisa intelligently studied the map for nearly two minutes, then raised his hand and made a dot a few miles north-east of the intersection of fifty degrees east and twenty degrees north.

The Master's eye was not slow to note that the designated location formed one point of a perfect equilateral triangle, the other points of which were Bab el Mandeb on the south and Mecca on the north.
"There, _M'alme_," whispered the Arab, in a choking voice.

"Now I have told you the secret of all secrets, and have lost my soul.

I have revealed the inner mystery of Islam, that to this day no man of the Feringi hath ever known.