CHAPTER Twenty.
"All men are equal in the dark." The first thing Goodenough did after Grim had sent Narayan Singh off on his deadly mission was to summon the sheikh of the Dome of the Rock.

He himself went to fetch him rather than risk having the sheikh bring a crowd of witnesses, who would be sure to talk afterwards.

The all-important thing was to conceal the fact that sacrilege had been committed.

But it was also necessary to establish the fact that Zionists had had no hand in it.
"You see," Grim explained, sitting on the edge of the stone coffin, "we could hold Jerusalem.

But if word of this business were to spread far and wide, you couldn't hold two or three hundred million fanatics; and believe me, they'd cut loose!" "The sheikh must realize that," said I.