It was a grief to him to let me go, but he was very busy.
I rose at once, and so did Suleyman.
'But what of the Sheykh Yusuf ?' I exclaimed, reminding him.
'Ah, to be sure!' rejoined the Governor with a slight frown.

'Of what religion is he ?' 'I suppose a Druze.' 'And the people who attacked him so unmercifully ?' 'Are Druzes too.' 'Ah, then, it is all in the family, as the saying goes.

And, unless some deputation from the Druze community appeals to me, I should be ill-advised to interfere in its affairs.

Our way of government is not identical with that which is pursued with such conspicuous success in highly civilised and settled countries like your own.

We leave the various communities and tribes alone to settle their internal differences.