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Next morning, Sultan Arafa assembled his courtiers and red-uniformed horse guards, mounted a noble white charger inherited from the deposed Sultan and started out for Sabbath prayers at the imperial mosque. Somebody was waiting for him. A young (28), high-strung house painter named Allal ben Abdallah had piloted his creaky model-A Ford through the crowds waiting to view the Sultan and parked it close to a wall of the mosque...
Thin, dark-eyed Isaac Allal was the child of a poor tailor in the squalid Tunisian village of La Marsa; he grew up with the pale face and the weak lungs of a ghetto child. Then one day last month a glorious vista opened for him. Relief officials told the Allals that Isaac could go to a convalescent camp in Norway, and from there to Israel...
...scoured the countryside in vain, a lumberjack walking near Oslo Fjord heard the thin cry of a child. He found the wreckage of the DC-3; sitting primly in his seat in the plane's tail, his safety belt fastened, rain-soaked and spattered with oil, was Isaac Allal...