Chapter 46

"I waited until he left Yussuf's shop, and then I followed him. There was a risk, of course, that he might refuse to say anything. At first, in fact, he would say nothing, but gradually as he realised that I knew as much if not more than he did about the history of his sect, he grew more communicative." The Professor's hands were shaking with excitement. "There seems not the slightest doubt," he continued, "that there has been no break whatever in the priesthood for over three thousand years. Through all these cent…