MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



other, common among the Bedouins, which 

 meant that the horse was lost to them. 



In all our subsequent intercourse this loss of 

 the "Pride of the Desert" seemed uppermost 

 in his thoughts and he never allowed us to for- 

 get that he was not pleased with the Governor 



of Aleppo. Be- 

 fore the first inter- 

 view was over I 

 realized that we 

 were a disappoint- 

 m e n t to each 

 other, and was 

 secretly glad I had 

 not ridden three 

 days to see him, as 

 glad, I imagine, 

 as he was sorrv 

 he had done so, 

 though, of course, 

 he was in duty bound to take the ride in 

 honor of Akmet Haffez. 



Perhaps, too, my dress had something to do 

 with his disapj)ointment. I was looking shop- 

 worn, to say the least, and he might have 

 thought that I would be dressed like some of 

 the foreign government ^rmy officials who 



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The Sheikh of all Sheikhs. 



