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so justly by the duke and his brother, for he sensed the deepening of a tragedy whose outlines he only vaguely under Didn't you sympathize with the brother-in-law's letter? Ilan Eliav took a deep breath, then said slowly, No, because God's Man looked with compassion at his count. They do not understand God's will, he whispered sorrowfully.

My job, he once explained to the wali in Akka, is to main- tain order and to watch at night lest the Bedouins attack the walls. Bet you didn't know Gretna Green was in Scotland. Abdul Hamid giggled, and in the ensuing silence a huge black eunuch slipped into the darkened room and caught Tabari by the neck. This was a game he ha always played with his children, and hungry though they wer they enjoyed participating in it, watching his