CHAPTER III.
A stranger was riding a lazy camel across the lonely Arabian desert.
All men are Moors in the dark, but this man was a Moor in the starlight.

A newly discovered star brought the man from the banks of the Indus.

He consulted all the calendars of the East, but none could tell him about the star.

Balthasar, however, was not the man to let the strange, incomprehensible star escape him.

Nothing can be concealed in God's bosom from an Eastern scholar, for not even God Himself has a passport for the land of the all-wise.