After he had come from the Palace he told his story again, but this time in the native bazaar.

He told it in Arabic, and it happened that a Greek seated outside a cafe close at hand overheard something of what was said.

The Greek took Abou Fatma aside, and with a promise of much merissa, wherewith to intoxicate himself, induced him to tell it a fourth time and very slowly.
"Could you find the house again ?" asked the Greek.
Abou Fatma had no doubts upon that score.

He proceeded to draw diagrams in the dust, not knowing that during his imprisonment the town of Berber had been steadily pulled down by the Mahdists and rebuilt to the north.
"It will be wise to speak of this to no one except me," said the Greek, jingling some significant dollars, and for a long while the two men talked secretly together.

The Greek happened to be Harry Feversham whom Durrance was proposing to visit in Donegal.