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Updated: May 17, 2025
You're a man after my own heart, Feisul, but you and your Arabs are children at dealing with these foreign exploiters! "They can beat you at every game but honesty. And listen: If you did defeat the French if you drove them into the sea tomorrow, they'd get away with all the money in Beirut and you'd still be at the mercy of foreign capitalists!
"The weight of his fist would drive a man like you like a nail into a tree." "Who fears such an ox?" the Syrian retorted. "A fly can sting him; a little knife can bleed him; a red rag can enrage him; and the crows who devour that sort of meat won't worry as to whether he was killed according to ritual! He has money for Feisul, has he? Well, never mind.
"I would go a long way," he answered cautiously. "What do you intend?" "To appear near the firing-line, for one thing, with somebody who looks like Colonel Lawrence, and somebody else who looks enough like Feisul in one of Feisul's cars, and give the French a run for it in one direction while Feisul escapes in the other." "Wallahi! But what if Feisul won't go?" "He'll get helped!
Grim answered, bringing down a clenched fist on his knee, and Feisul laughed in spite of himself. "You talk like a prophet, Jimgrim, but let me tell you something. It is mainly a question of money after all. The British paid us a subsidy until they withdrew from Syria. They did their best for us even then, for they left behind guns, ammunition, wagons and supplies.
"The secret agents point out that although Feisul is against anything of the sort, he must be committed to it for his own sake. And they make great capital out of Feisul's promise that he will protect the Jews if recognized as king of independent Syria. Kill all the Jews beforehand, so there won't be any for him to protect when the time comes that's the argument." Mabel interrupted.
But they were the only means in sight just then, and we had to bear in mind that message I had made Rene send, warning the French to look out for an auto with a white flag and two civilians together with Feisul and Lawrence.
But, if so, then though ye are jackals, kites and vultures all in one with the skill of chemists added, ye can never extract secret knowledge from a dead man's brain. Then that letter will reach Feisul tomorrow night; and the French, who speak of you now as of animals, will call you what? Princes? Noblemen?
That does not sound like Feisul, but the French agent in Deraa assured me that he will have the original letter in his hands within a day or two." Grim smiled over at Mabel. "You might show him the letter?" he suggested. So Mabel dug down into the mysteries beneath her shirtwaist and produced the document wrapped in a medical bandage of oiled silk.
He had thrown off the grey army blanket because fever burned him, and his lean, hard muscles stood out as if cast in bronze. "But for the Jews, Feisul would be king of all this land this minute!" he said suddenly, and closed up tight again. Grim smiled. He nearly always does smile when apparently at a loose end.
The French captain was spiteful when he discovered that Jeremy wasn't Feisul after all. He swore like a wet cat, accused Mabel of being a spy, took away our basket of provisions, and I think would have shot Jeremy out of hand if Jeremy hadn't started clowning and made the other Frenchmen laugh. Laughter and murder no more mix than oil and water.
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