Suddenly the Master began to speak: "Listen, Lieutenant! Events are at a crisis, now.

I will speak very plainly.

You know the Arabs, good and bad.

You know Islam, and all that the Mohammedan world is.

You know there are more than 230,000,000 people of this faith, scattered from Canton to Sierra Leone, and from Cape Town to Tobolsk, all over Turkey, Africa, and Arabia--an enormous, fanatic, fighting race! Probably, if trained, the finest fighting-men in the world, for they fear neither pain nor' death.