Get him, if you can,
to send a message to the French General Staff, warning them to watch for
Feisul and two civilians and Lawrence in an auto. After that bring him
if you have to put him in a sack."
"What's his name, and where does he live?"
"Adolphe Rene. Everybody knows his house. Jeremy, look as unlike
Feisul as you can until the time comes, but study the part and be ready
to jump into his clothes. Narayan Singh, stay with me. You and I will
do the dirty work. Get busy, Ramsden."
Circumstances work clock-fashion, wheel fitting into wheel, when those
tides that Shakespeare spoke of are at flood. Disregarding all the
theory and argument about human will as opposed to cosmic law I say
this, without any care at all who contradicts me:
That whoever is near the hub of happenings is the agent of Universal
Law, and can no more help himself than can the watch that tells the
hour. The men who believe that they make history should really make a
thoughtful fellow laugh. "The moving finger writes, and having writ
moves on"; the old tentmaker Omar knew the truth of it. You could
almost hear the balance-wheel of Progress click as the door opened
before Grim had finished speaking, and a staff officer appeared to
invite him to be present at Feisul's conference.
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