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Updated: September 17, 2025
"They told you at the bank " "That you had withdrawn the keys! If Dexter had known that!" "Hassan of Aleppo took them from me last night! At last the Hashishin have triumphed." Bristol sank into the armchair. "Every port is watched," he said. "But " "I am entirely at your mercy; you can do as you please with me. But before you do anything I should like you to listen to what I have to say."
My precautions have enabled me to retain the relic, but you have seen what fate befell all those others who even touched the receptacle containing it. If I fall a victim to the Hashishin, I am uncertain how you, as my confidant, will fare. Therefore I have locked the slipper in my safe and to you entrust the key. I append particulars of the lock combination; but I warn you do not open the safe.
But I chartered a taxi out on Corporation Street and invited the man to race the local! He couldn't do it, but we got here in time for the fireworks! Mr. Cavanagh, there are anything from six to ten Hashishin watching this house!" "I know it!" "They're bareheaded; and in the dark their shaven skulls look like nothing human. They're armed with those damned tubes, too.
His eyes, too, were nearer to real black than any human eyes I had ever seen before excepting the awful eyes of Hassan of Aleppo. Hassan of Aleppo! It was, to that hour, a mystery how his group of trained assassins the Hashishin had quitted England.
The best men in the department, working night and day, failed to effect a single arrest. In spite of the mysterious activity of Hassan of Aleppo the slipper was safely lodged in the British Antiquarian Museum." The Commissioner nodded thoughtfully. "There is no doubt," continued Bristol, "that the Hashishin were watching the Museum. Mr.
Cavanagh, it's uncanny!" said Bristol. "I can understand that one of these Hashishin could easily have got up behind the man on duty out in the open.
The idea of a pursuing scimitar is not new to me. This phenomenon, which I have now witnessed three times, is fairly easy of explanation, but its significance is singular. It is said to be one of the devices whereby the Hashishin warn those whom they have marked down for destruction, and is called, in the East, "The Scimitar of Hassan."
I am utterly at a loss to understand why the Hashishin for it is members of that awful organization who, without a doubt, surround this house at the present moment should seek my life. Hilton, I have brought trouble with me!" "It's almost incredible!" said Hilton, staring at me. "Why do these people pursue you?" Ere I had time to reply Soar entered, arrayed, as was Hilton, in his night attire.
As we ascended side by side I found it impossible to believe that this dainty white figure was that of an associate of the Hashishin, that of a creature of the terrible Hassan of Aleppo. Yet that she was the same girl who, a few days after my return from the East, had shown herself conversant with the plans of the murderous fanatics was beyond doubt.
With every nerve, it seemed, strung up almost to snapping point, I mechanically pursued my reading. "At the time of the Crusades," wrote Deeping, "there was a story current of this awful Order which I propose to recount. It is one of the most persistent dealing with the Hashishin, and is related to-day of the apparently mythical Hassan of Aleppo.
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