Khalid

Khalid al Najar, 27, was half dazed as he walked back toward Khan Younis with a plastic bag of clothes.

And Khalid cuts his hair, doffs his jubbah, and appears again in the ordinary attire of civilised mortals.

O Khalid, have you forgotten that these “coppers” are the minions of Tammany?

Whereupon Khalid rises and sits on the divan near the Padre.

And what in the end might Khalid discover for us or for himself, at least, in his explorations of the Spirit-World?

But there are passages here, of which Khalid can say, ‘The Mortar at least is mine.’