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Updated: May 7, 2025
Yes, we caught him and he, the good fellow, the good honest neutral" it would be difficult to describe the bitterness and scorn which rang through Marnier's words, "has been kind enough to tell me how he earned his German pay as well as his French wages." Hillyard leaned forward. "Yes, tell me that!" "On his way to the factory in the morning, he makes a call." "Yes."
"And through the doorway where the Tur-cos I like the old name crowded I saw the sand filtering in from the desert, and against the black leaves of a solitary palm-tree, with leaves like giant Fatma hands, I saw the silver disc of the moon. "'I vote we go, said Marnier's light tenor voice in my ear. 'The atmosphere's awful in here. "'Very well, I said.
Her fluttering hands seemed beckoning us to the realms of the thousand and one nights. I stood where I had got up, and watched her. "'I say, aren't we going? said Marnier's voice in my ear. "I cursed the day when I had agreed to take him with me, leaped down to the earth, and struggled towards the door. As we neared it the girl sidled down the room till she was exactly in front of Marnier.
"As he spoke the wind roared, and over the camel market a thick fog seemed to fall abruptly. It was a sheet of sand from the surrounding dunes. I threw away my cigar, stepped into the passage, and the landlord banged the door, and drove home the heavy bolts. "Then I went to Marnier's room, and knocked. I felt sure, but I thought I would make sure before going to my room. "No answer.
"I knocked again loudly. "Again no answer. "Then I turned the handle, and entered. "The room was empty. I glanced round quickly. The small window was open. All the windows of the inn were barred, but, as I learned later, a bar in Marnier's had been broken, and was not yet replaced when we arrived at Beni-Kouidar. In consequence of this it was possible to squeeze through into the arcade outside.
"Well," I answered. "Algia danced that night. While she was dancing we found a dead body in the court. It was Marnier's. A knife had been thrust into him from behind!" "Ah!" said the doctor. "But " exclaimed young England, "it was that fellow? It was Batouch?" I shrugged my shoulders. "Nobody ever found out who did it." "Well, but of course "
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