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Updated: June 9, 2025
"But when we reached this house Yussuf Dakmar was afraid and refused to approach nearer than the street. He insisted on keeping watch outside the garden gate while we should draw near and shoot everyone who might be in the house and recover the letter. He is a coward, and we could not persuade him.
But he hasn't got an honest face like yours, and when pay-day comes I shall hide my money." "So you know Damascus?" answered Yussuf Dakmar. "I hope you will come and see me in Damascus. I will give you my address. If Ramsden effendi has only engaged you temporarily, perhaps I can show you a way to make money with those accomplishments of yours."
"Nay, sahib, but the reverse; for if Yussuf Dakmar should miss you after midnight he would go in search of you, with those five in turn tracking him. And as for finding you, that would be a simple matter, for every night thief and beggar waiting for the dawn would give attention to such a big man as you and would report your movements.
The sixth man lingered within earshot of the officers, presumably to pick up further suggestions. So I got in at the front end and met them halfway down the corridor. "Plenty of room in the car behind," I said abruptly. They were five to one, but Yussuf Dakmar was in front, and he merely got in the way of the wolves behind him.
Oh, believe me, I didn't trust him! I laughed when he made his proposal to me." "Now that is very interesting," said Yussuf Dakmar. "To tell you the truth I had a little experience with him last night myself. He came on me by accident in a certain place, and we conversed. I pretended to agree with him for the sake of appearances, but I formed a very poor opinion of him.
He poured a powder into it in Jeremy's presence, the two of them squatting on the floor of the corridor with the bottle between them so that no one else might see what was taking place. "Now, you would better get rid of that fellow Omar while you attend to this," Yussuf Dakmar cautioned him. "Can you think of any way of doing that?" "Oh, easily!" Jeremy answered. "He is a great one for the women.
But I shan't sleep, and I shall watch you; and if I suspect you of making plans to have me robbed or murdered I shall make such a noise that everybody will come running, and then I shall be a celebrity but they'll put you in jail." "Very well; you steal the letter, and I'll keep close to you," said Yussuf Dakmar.
"Leave Yussuf Dakmar to me!" insisted Jeremy. "I pay the debt of an Anzac division!" I hope I've never hurt a man who didn't deserve it, or who wasn't fit to fight; but I have to admit that Grim didn't need to repeat the invitation.
"Very well," he laughed, "tell me who stabbed you and I won't mention your name to Staff-Captain Abd el Kadir." "And these men? Will they say nothing?" "Not a word. Who stabbed you?" "Yussuf Dakmar! May Allah cut him off from love and mercy!" "Golly!" exploded Jeremy, forgetting not to talk English. "There's a swine for you!
"But at that, sahib, another man asked him how they might know that the letter really came from Damascus. 'It well might be, said that one, 'a forgery contrived by Yussuf Dakmar himself, in which case though they might stir many Moslems into action by showing it, the men in Damascus would fail to follow up the massacre by striking at the French.
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