CHAPTER XIV

A SECOND STRING That night I was honoured by a visit from the Hadji Abdul Salam, the chief _marabout_ and _hakim_ of this particular tribe, and a man whose immense influence and power seemed disproportionate to his virtues and merits. (One of the things the Occidental mind can never grasp, is the way in which the Oriental mind can divorce Faith from Works, the office from its holder, and yield unstinted veneration to the holy _priest_, knowing him to be, at the same time, a worthless and scoundrelly _man_.) . . . T…