they did not deem it necessary to make such a discovery then. It
seemed rather imperative to maintain the contrary and try to prove
it. Now, Khalid having received a copy of this booklet from a friend
in Beirut, reads it and writes back, saying that it is not a
translation but a mutilation, rather, of one of Thomas Carlyle's
Latter-Day Pamphlets entitled _Jesuitism_. This letter must have
reached them together with Father Farouche's report on Khalid's
infidelity, just about the time the booklet was circulating in
Baalbek. For in the following Number of their _Weekly Journal_ an
article, stuffed and padded with execrations and anathema, is
published against the book and its anonymous author. From this I quote
the following, which is by no means the most erring and most poisonous
of their shafts.

"'Such a Pamphlet,' exclaims the scholarly Jesuit Editor, 'was never
written by Thomas Carlyle, as some here, from ignorance or malice,
assert. For that philosopher, of all the thinkers of his day, believed
in God and in the divinity of Jesus His Son, and could never descend
to these foul and filthy depths. He never soiled his pen in the
putrescence of falsehood and incendiarism. The author of this
blasphemous and pernicious Pamphlet, therefore, in trying to father
his infidelity, his sedition, and his lies, on Carlyle, is doubly
guilty of a most heinous crime. And we suspect, we know, and for the
welfare of the community we hope to be able soon to point out openly,
who and where this vile one is. Yes, only an atheist and anarchist is
capable of such villainous mendacity, such unutterable wickedness and
treachery. Now, we would especially call upon our readers in Baalbek
to be watchful and vigilant, for among them is one, recently come back
from America, who harbours under his bushy hair the atheism and
anarchy of decadent Europe, etc, etc.'

"And this is followed by secret orders from their Head Office to the
Superior of their Branch in Zahleh, to go on with the work hinted in
the article aforesaid. Let it not be supposed that I make this
statement in jaundice or malice. For the man who was instigated to do
this foul work subsequently sold the secret. And the Kaimkam, my
friend, when speaking to me of the matter, referred to the article in
question, and told me that Khalid was denounced to the Government by
the Jesuits as an anarchist. 'And lest I be compelled,' he continued,
'to execute such orders in his case as I might re