It was at the time when the name of the Senussi--the mysterious Holy Man
who frightened the Foreign Office from an oasis of the Libyan
Desert--was in the papers.
"The Senussi!" exclaimed Stromboli. "When I tell you that I--_moi qui
vous parle_--have spoken with the Senussi; when I tell you that I--_moi
qui vous parle_--have inflicted an indignity upon the Senussi; nay,
more, when I tell you that the Senussi and I exchanged indignities! Are
you at leisure? Then let me tell you."