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The blinding June sky of Africa hung over the town. In the doorway of an / Arab coffee-house a young man stood listening to the remarks exchanged / by the patrons of the establishment, who lay in torpid heaps on the low / shelf bordering the room.
The young man's caftan was faded to a dingy brown, but the muslin / garment covering it was clean, and so was the turban wound about his / shabby fez.