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Updated: May 10, 2025
The first was a razor, which he sharpened, tested with his thumb suggestively, and then placed in his sock, studying Yussuf Dakmar's throat for a minute or so after that, as if expecting to have to use the razor on it presently. As the effect of that wore off he pulled out a pistol.
The wretch was already helpless, and I dare say they broke his back as they leaned their combined weight on him and forced him backward and head-first through the window. Jeremy made a grab for his foot, but missed it, and a knife-blade already wet with Yussuf Dakmar's blood whipped out and stung him in the thigh. That, of course, was sheer ignorance. You should never sting an Australian.
He drew out the razor and did stunts with it, juggling it with open blade from hand to hand pretending to drop it and always catching it again within a fraction of an inch of Yussuf Dakmar's person. By and by he juggled with coins, match-box, cigars, razor and anything he could lay his hands on.
It was I who pounced on it and stowed it away carefully in my inner pocket. Yussuf Dakmar's emotions were poignant and mixed, but he was no quitter. He thought he knew definitely where the letter was now, and the wolf glance with which he favoured me changed swiftly to a smile of ingratiating politeness.
The fifth man was holding on to the scrimmage with his left hand and reaching round with his right, trying to stick a knife into Yussuf Dakmar's ribs without endangering his own hide. But the sixth man was the rascal I had kicked. He had no room perhaps no inclination to get into the scrimmage; so he saw me first, and he needed no spur to his enmity.
He did jump down from the gallery and surprise a meeting summoned by Yussuf Dakmar. And it is true that Yussuf Dakmar's purpose is to bring about a massacre of Jews, which is to be simultaneous with an attack by Feisul's forces on the French in Syria. But we three men are not in favour of it. We have had no part in the preparations, although we know all details.
One of them that interested Yussuf Dakmar awfully was to point the pistol straight ahead, half-cocked, and try to get the hammer down by slapping it with the palm of his hand. Most of our baggage was on the floor, but one fairly heavy valise was in the rack over Yussuf Dakmar's head.
Jeremy's roving eye fell on the small doped bottle that I had taken from Grim's valise. Looking preternaturally wise, he walked over to Yussuf Dakmar's bed, sat down on it with his back toward me and proceeded to unfold a plan. "Allah makes all things easy," he began. "It is lawful to take all precautions to confound the infidel.
"I have heard tales," he went on, "of a new ruler for this country. What do you think of Feisul's chance?" As he said that he eyed me sideways swiftly and keenly. Grim sat back in his own corner and folded up his legs, watching the game contentedly. Jeremy, intercepting Yussuf Dakmar's glance, put his own construction on it.
On top of that mess Narayan Singh pounced like a tiger, wrenching at arms and legs until I struggled to my feet again only to be thrust aside by Jeremy as he rose and rushed at Yussuf Dakmar's two assailants. But with all his speed Jeremy was a tenth of a tick too late.
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