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PART I YOUTH C H A P T E R 1 I '1"HE wind blew straight up the river valley. It had freshened from the north-east : the direction of the sea. Sudden gusts of rain were coming down with it, light icy rain that was a little heavier than a sea-mist and a little lighter than snow. Luke Bishop...

PREFACE WHEN a man goes wandering into outlandish places he usually has a reason. At any rate, reasonable people feel that he should have one. Therefore it seems necessary and proper in his preface to explain why I went to Arabia. Actually I have never understood the why of anything -my own...