CHAPTER X. THE TREASURE-HILL
TOM said it happened like this.
A dervish was stumping it along through the Desert, on foot, one blazing hot day, and he had come a thousand miles and was pretty poor, and hungry, and ornery and tired, and along about where we are now he run across a camel-driver with a hundred camels, and asked him for some a’ms. But the cameldriver he asked to be excused. The dervish said:
“ Don’t you own these camels?”
“ Yes, they’re mine.”
“ Are you in debt?”
“ Who—me? No.”
“ Well, a man that owns a hundred camels and ain’t in debt is rich—and not only rich, but very rich. Ain’t it so?”
The camel-driver owned up that it was so. Then the dervish says:
“ God has made you rich, and He has made me poor. He has His reasons, and they are wise, blessed be His
