The Hawk of Egypt

CHAPTER I

"_For in the days we know not of Did fate begin Weaving the web of days that wove Your doom_."

SWINBURNE.

". . . allahu akbar--la ilaha--illa 'llah!"

Across the golden glory of the sky floated the insistent call of the _muezzin_ just as Damaris, followed closely by Wellington, her bulldog, turned out of the narrow street into the ...