If he persists in a wrong course, we must
force him into the right one, for the day of autocratic government is
past and the hour has come when those who truly represent the people
have the first right to direct all policy. If the right is still
withheld from them, they must take it. And it is we in this room who
truly represent the Arab cause, on whom lies the responsibility of
forcing Feisul's hand!'
"Well, sahib, these three prisoners who sit here offered, at once to go
to Damascus and kill the men who are advising Feisul wrongly. They said
that if they were given money they could easily hire Damascenes to do
the dagger work, there being, as the sahib doubtless knows, a common
saying in these parts about Damascus folk and sharp steel. Whereat
Yussuf Dakmar suddenly assumed a sneering tone of voice, saying that he
preferred men for his part with spunk enough to do such work themselves,
and there was an argument, they protesting and he mocking them, until at
last this man, whose neck the glass cut, demanded of him whether he,
Yussuf Dakmar, was not in truth an empty boaster who would flinch at
bloodshed.
"He seemed to have been waiting for just that, sahib, for he smirked and
threw a chest.
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