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Updated: June 18, 2025
It must not be omitted, that there was a fragrance in the room, which, unlike as the scene was, brought back, through so many years, to Redclyffe's mind a most vivid remembrance of poor old Doctor Grim's squalid chamber, with his wild, bearded presence in the midst of it, puffing his everlasting cloud; for here was the same smell of tobacco, and on the mantel-piece of a chimney lay a German pipe, and an old silver tobacco-box into which was wrought the leopard's head and the inscription in black letter.
She started back on seeing that the room was occupied. "What is it, Sally?" asked Grim's mistress, with a good-natured laugh. "Why, Mrs. Walter told me you wasn't in yet; I'm awful sorry, I beg your pardon." She spoke with a strong south-west-country accent. "Do you want me?" "It's only for Grim," returned Sally, showing something which she held wrapped up in paper.
All the news of Asia from Alexandretta to the Persian Gulf and from Northern Turkestan to South Arabia reaches Grim's ears sooner or later. He earns his bread and butter knitting all that mess of cross-grained information into one intelligible pattern; after which he interprets it and acts suddenly without advance notices.
His sons and grandsons in varying degree saw matters from the old man's viewpoint, although, having had rather less experience of it, they were not quite so confident of Grim's generalship; but they made up for that by perfectly dog-like devotion to "the old man, their father," whose word and whose interpretation of the Koran was the only law they knew.
He's here tonight to make you a pres ent of the mine! And here's another man," he pointed at me "a mining expert, who'll tell you what the thing's worth. It's yours, if you'll agree to abandon Syria and lay a course for Baghdad!" "You'll be a virgin Victim!" Feisul was interested; he couldn't help being. And he was utterly convinced of Grim's sincerity.
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.
"So did you, almost, till you started fooling like this." Grim artistically kept the conversation on Todd, and Gus learned how like an ass each individual of the quintette thought him. He smiled gently at Grim's astuteness in paying him out so neatly for his previous friendly remarks about chucking out.
Hilary strained his ears, yet took care to keep hidden behind Grim's huge frame. What would she do now? It seemed to him as if the whole world depended on her reply. The girl broke the silence. She had come to a swift decision. "They must not get you. Go upstairs, quietly, into the chamber on the left of the hall. It's my bedroom.
Her tent was pitched each day in the midst of ours, and she ordered every one about, Grim included, as if we were her husband's purchased slaves. And because it was Grim's idea to make use of her to gain access to her husband we all put up with it, fetching and carrying without a murmur that is to say, all except one of us.
And as we crossed the imaginary border in pure, mellow moonlight, with our three bells clanging, you could have told its approximate whereabouts by the change that came over the gang. Even Grim's back, away ahead on the leading camel, assumed a jauntier swing.
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