Religious places have been desecrated.
There would be inflammation of Moslem prejudices everywhere." "It would be worse for you!" Grim retorted.

The sheikh stared hard at him, stroking his beard again, "How so, Jimgrim?
Have I had a hand in this ?" "This is your famous Bir-el-Arwah, where, as you tell your faithful, the souls of the dead come to pray twice a week.

This is the gulf beneath the Rock of Abraham that you tell them reaches to the middle of the world.

Look at it! Shall we publish flashlight photographs ?" The sheikh's eyes twinkled as he recognized the force of that argument.

He turned it over in his mind for a full minute before he answered.
"You cannot be expected to understand spiritual things," he said at last.