That fellow who went and fetched you--he sits over there by the north door now--he will ask you questions about me presently.

Tell him I'm leaving for Damascus in the morning.
If he asks what we have been speaking about so long, tell him I brought you the compliments of Mustapha Kemal." "I will tell him to go to jahannam!" "Better be civil to him.

His hour comes tomorrow." The sheikh led the way along one side of the inner of three concentric parts into which the mosque is divided by rows of marble columns, until we came to a cavernous opening in the floor, where steps hewn in the naked rock led downward into a cave that underlies the spot on which tradition says Abraham made ready to sacrifice his son.
It was very dark below.

Only one little oil lamp was burning, on a rock shaped like an altar in one corner.

It cast leaping shadows that looked like ghosts on the smooth, uneven walls.