"They'll dope out that our obvious course would be to confront Feisul
with this letter. The only way to travel is by train; the roads are
rotten--in fact, no auto could get through; they'd tip off the
Bedouins, who'd murder everybody.
"So they'll watch the trains and especially Haifa, where everyone going
north has to spend the night; and they'll stop at nothing to get the
letter back, for two reasons; as long as it's in our hands it can be
used to establish proof of the plot against Feisul; once it's back in
theirs, they can keep it in their secret dossier to use against Feisul
if they ever catch him and bring him to trial. You remember the Dreyfus
case?
"I shall start for Damascus by the early train--probably take an auto as
far as Ludd. If I want to live until I reach Damascus I shall have to
prove conclusively that I haven't that letter with me. Anyone known to
be in British service is going to be suspected and, if not murdered,
robbed. Ramsden has been seen about too much with me. Jeremy might
juggle by but he's already notorious, and these people are shrewd.
Better hold Jeremy in reserve, and the same with Narayan Singh.
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