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The Shaykh Jami, a celebrated genealogist, informed me that in A.H. 666 = A.D. 1266-7, the Sayyid Yusuf el Baghdadi visited the port of Siyaro near Berberah, then occupied by an infidel magician, who passed through mountains by the power of his gramarye: the saint summoned to his aid Mohammed bin Tunis el Siddiki, of Bayt el Fakih in Arabia, and by their united prayers a hill closed upon the pagan.
This is no nomadic moving of the Ahl Bayt. No, no, my Captain. It is " "Well, what?" "A war-party. What you in your language call the the reception committee, n'est-ce pas? Ah, yes, the reception committee." "And the guests?" demanded the major. "The guests are all the members of the Flying Legion!" answered the Frenchman, with another draw at his indispensable cigarette.
Serious though the situation was, the Frenchman could not repress a thought of the untamed beauty of that scene a land long familiar to him, in the days when he had flown down these coasts on punitive expeditions against the rebellious Beni Harb clans of the Ahl Bayt, or People of the Black Tents.
At the corners of this colonnade, four tall white minarets towered toward the sky minarets from which now a pretty lively rifle-fire was developing. A number of small buildings were scattered about the square; but all were dominated by the black impressive cube of the Ka'aba itself, the Bayt Ull
Down, swiftly down, to raid the Bayt Ullah, the sacred Ka'aba, holy of holies to more than two hundred million Moslem fanatics, each of whom would with joy have died to keep the hand of the unbelieving dog from so much as touching that hoar structure or the earth of the inviolate Haram. Down, swiftly down with picks and crowbars.
Never in all his dealings with the son of the East had he by word or look offended against Islam. There was, however, iron determination in his eyes as he demanded: "Is it indeed true that in Mecca stands a building called the Ka'aba, also called Bayt Ullah, or Allah's House?" "Yea, Master, that is true," answered the Arab, with strange eyes.
A moving line of dust showed where a distant caravan was plodding eastward over the sparkling crystals of an ancient salt sea-bottom. A drift of low-hanging wood-smoke, very far away, betrayed the presence of a camp of the Ahl Bayt, the People of the Black Tents.
Of all those Beni Harb, none remained not even the one shot by the Master. But not one of the Ahl Bayt, or People of the Black Tents, was visible. "Sure, now, can you beat that?" shouted Bohannan, exultantly, and waved his service cap. "Licked at the start! They quit cold!" Sheffield, at his side, dropped to the sand, his heart drilled by a jagged slug.
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