Is it not meritorious, O Sheik?
Doth not thy Prophet himself say: 'Voyaging is victory, and he who journeyeth not is both ignorant and blind ?"' The old man pondered a moment, then fell to stroking his beard.

The act was friendly, and of good portent.

He murmured: "I see, O Frank, that thou hast read the Strong Book.

Thou dost know our law, even though thou be from Feringistan.

What is thy name ?" "Men know me only as The Master.