Chapter 18 CHAPTER VIII 18

THE KAABA OF SOLITUDE

Disappointed, distraught, diseased,––worsted by the Jesuits, excommunicated, crossed in love,––but with an eternal glint of sunshine in his breast to open and light up new paths before him, Khalid, after the fatal episode, makes away from Baalbek. He suddenly disappears. But where he lays his staff, where he spends his mont