Chapter 30 THE CALL OF THE EAST

I

seemed to haul myself back out of the pit of unconsciousness by the aid of two little hands which clasped my own. I uttered a sigh that was almost a sob, and opened my eyes.

I was sitting in the big red-leathern armchair in my own study ... and a lovely but truly bizarre figure, in a harêm dress, was kneeling on the carpet at my feet; so th