CHAPTER SEVENThey rode until the Duke became aware that Mimosa was exhausted.
She was very pale and he saw that she was swaying in the saddle.
It was then, at the end of a village, that he saw a Mosque.
It was only a very small one, but the Duke drew up outside it and gave Mimosa his reins to hold.
By this time the stars were fading rapidly and it would be only a little while before the dawn broke.
The Duke fortunately saw a man coming out of a cottage on his way to work.
He spoke to him and asked where the Imam of the Mosque lived.
The man pointed to a house just a short distance away from the Mosque.
The Duke walked to the door and, after he had knocked on it for some minutes, it was opened by an elderly man. He had obviously been awoken by the noise.
The Duke explained in a mix
