He has a letter as well, and that is what I want. Will you get
it for me?"
"Do you need it badly?"
"By Allah, I must have it!"
"By Allah, then I am in good luck, for that makes me indispensable,
doesn't it? And an indispensable man can demand what he pleases!"
"Not at all," Yussuf Dakmar answered, frowning. "I have taken a fancy
to you, or I would see you to the devil. When we reach Haifa, ten or
even twenty men will present themselves to do this business for me. Or,
if I choose, I can use that fellow Omar who is travelling with Ramsden;
he would like to be my accomplice, but I don't trust him very much."
"In that you are perfectly right," answered Jeremy. "He is not at all
the sort of man for you to trust. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that
he has warned Ramsden against you already! Better beware of him!"
According to Jeremy's account of the conversation afterward, it was not
until that moment that he saw clearly how to prevent Yussuf Dakmar from
calling in thugs to attack me either at Haifa or at some point between
there and Damascus. Until then he had been feeling his way along--
"spieling," as he calls it--keeping his man interested while he made all
ready for the next trick.
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