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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.
I caught sight of Mabel Ticknor in the front compartment of our car, and Grim pointed out Yussuf Dakmar leaning through a window of the car behind. His face was fat, unwholesome, with small, cold eyes, an immoral nose, and a small mouth with pouting lips. The tarboosh he wore tilted at an angle heightened the general effect of arrogant self-esteem.
If I were he, said Yussuf Dakmar, 'I think I wouldn't run far, with all these shadows to right and left and all the hours from now until dawn in which to act the fox. I suspect he is not far away at this minute. Nevertheless, said he, 'those Indians are dangerous fellows.
He had his pencil out, and contrived to flick a piece of paper into my lap unseen by Yussuf Dakmar. Trust him to do the rest. So I acted the part of an habitually heavy drinker in a fit of sudden rage, and dismissed Jeremy from my service on the spot. "Very well," he answered blandly. "Allah makes all things easy. Let us hope that other fellow finds it easy to put you to bed tonight!
He is not difficult to kill! "And at that, sahib, Yussuf Dakmar flew into a great rage and called them fools of complicated kinds. "'Like hounds without a huntsman, ye will overrun the scent! said he; and he spoke more like a man than any of them, although not as a man to be liked or trusted. 'Who are ye to clap your fat noses on the scent I found and tell me the how and whither of it?
"'But does it bear his signature? a man asked. "'How could it, since he never saw the letter? Yussuf Dakmar answered. "'Then few will pay heed to it, said the other. "'Perhaps if we were all such fools as you that might be so, Yussuf Dakmar retorted. 'However, fortunately the rest of us have readier wits!
Yussuf Dakmar was gone twenty minutes, and whether he begged, bought or stole did not transpire, but he returned with a pint flask containing stuff that looked and smelt enough like whisky to get by if there had been a label on the bottle.
"And at that speech Yussuf Dakmar laughed with great delight. 'Better late than never! said he. 'Better to think of a wise precaution now than not at all! But oh, ye are an empty-headed crew! he told them. 'I pity the conspiracy that had no better planning than ye would make for it without my fore thought! I thought of this long ago!
By the time we reached the guard-house and answered the Sikh sentry's challenge there was no sign of Grim in front, and we could only hear in the distance behind us the occasional click of a loose shoe to tell that Yussuf Dakmar was still following. "Better the evil that we know..." Yussuf Dakmar had his nerve with him that night, or possibly desperation robbed him of discretion.
He had established the fact that the French secret agent was already on the track of the letter, and that in turn explained why he had not seized Yussuf Dakmar and put him in jail. It was better to use the man, as the sequel proved. And Yussuf Dakmar walked straight into Grim's trap. "What is your name?" he demanded. "Call me Omar," said Grim. "A Turk, are you?
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