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"It means," he went on, with a hand on each knee and his strange eyes fixed steadily on Feisul's, "that the French are ready to attack you. It means they're sure of capturing your person and bent on seeing your finish. They'll give you a drumhead court martial and make excuses afterward." "Inshallah," Feisul answered, meaning "If Allah permits it." "That is exactly the right word!"
And it is we in this room who truly represent the Arab cause, on whom lies the responsibility of forcing Feisul's hand! "Well, sahib, these three prisoners who sit here offered, at once to go to Damascus and kill the men who are advising Feisul wrongly.
Now that fellow Sidi bin Tagim in the hospital is an honest old kite in his way. He's a great rooter for Feisul. And the only easy way to ditch a man like Feisul, who's as honest as the day is long, and no man's fool, is to convince his fanatical admirers that for his own sake he ought to be forced along a certain course. The game's as old as Adam.
"Haven't you warned Feisul?" She had both elbows on the table and her chin between her hands, and I dare say she had listened in just that attitude to fifty inside stories that the newspapers would scatter gold in vain to get. "I sure did. And he has sent one of his staff down here to keep an eye on things. I saw him this afternoon riding in a cab toward the Jaffa Gate.
Hadad unwrapped it, read it carefully, and handed it to Grim. "Are you deceived by that?" he asked. "Does Feisul speak like that, or write like that? Since when has he turned coward that he should sign his name with a number?" "What do you make of it?" asked Grim. "Hah! It is as plain as the ink on the paper.
Hadad must have been discussing details of the plan with Grim along the road; for he got busy at the same time, persuading Feisul to part with his garments not that his consent really mattered at the moment; they were pulled off him by half a dozen hands at once, and Jeremy had the best of that bargain all right, for in addition to silk headdress and a fine black Arab full-dress coat, there was linen of a sort you can't buy better stuff than bishops wear and clean, which Jeremy's own wasn't.
Feisul writes the purest kind of Arabic, and this isn't that sort of Arabic. It was written by a foreigner perhaps a Frenchman possibly an Armenian most likely a Turk certainly one of the outer ring of politicians who have access to Feisul and seek to control him, but are not really in his confidence.
Didn't they promise the Arabs that Feisul should be King of Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and all that?" "They did. The Allies all promised, France included. But since the Armistice the British have made a present of Palestine to the Jews, and the French have demanded Syria for themselves. The British are pro-Feisul, but the French don't want him anywhere except dead or in jail.
"So they'll watch the trains and especially Haifa, where everyone going north has to spend the night; and they'll stop at nothing to get the letter back, for two reasons; as long as it's in our hands it can be used to establish proof of the plot against Feisul; once it's back in theirs, they can keep it in their secret dossier to use against Feisul if they ever catch him and bring him to trial.
Next he asked them how much of that promise made by the Allies to Emir Feisul as the leader of the Arabs had been kept, or was likely to be kept; and they answered in one voice, 'None of it! Whereat he nodded, as a teacher nods gravely when the pupils have their lesson well by heart, and said presently in a voice like that of a Guru denouncing sin: 'A woman's promise is a little matter; who believes it?
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