"_Shal'lah! Razi Allahu anhu!_" (It is Allah's will; may Allah be satisfied with him!) "What would I not give to have him back!" The trilling of his cabin phone startled him to attention.

He entered, took the receiver and heard Leclair's voice from the pilot-house: "Clouds on the horizon, my Captain.

And I think there is a mountain range coming in sight.

Would you care to look ?" The Master, very grim and silent, went into the pilot-house.

He had decided to make no mention of what had happened.