In obedience to the Consul's order, I wrote express to the Khawajah -- --, my creditor, informing him that there had been some error and entreating him to send your cheque in to the British Consulate.

I hope to God you have received it safely before this.

My health has suffered from this huge indignity.

I shall not long survive this cruel shame.' The second letter was from Her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, enclosing my cheque written to the order of the Armenian gentleman for the amount of the mortgage which he held upon my Druze friend's property, and adjuring me to pay a visit to the Consulate without delay.
I went that afternoon.

The outer office was crowded with the usual set of English and would-be English persons who went there for gossip.