As if he knew what she was feeling, he said,
“We are only staying for one night, but it is important for me not only to meet the Sheik Hassam El Zigli with whom we will be staying but other Sheiks and Caids of the neighbourhood.”
“Why should you want to meet them?” Nevada enquired. She wondered if he would give her a truthful answer or if it had something to do with his secret exploits.
To her surprise Tyrone Strome replied,
“I am writing a book.”
“A book!”
It was somehow the last thing she had expected him to say.
“Does it surprise you?” he asked. “Morocco has always been a country of mystery, very little is known about it and less still about the people who inhabit it.”
Nevada’s eyes were on his.
She was interested despite herself – extremely interested and she was frightened in
