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Inclination prompted him in one direction, common sense held him back. As was his custom, he took a pencil and wrote upon a little block: Find means to force Brinn to speak. He lay back in his chair again, deep in thought, and presently added the note: Obtain interview with Ormuz Khan. Just as he replaced the pencil on the table, his telephone bell rang.
The first English trading stations were opened at Masulipatam and at Surat . In the latter year and again in 1615 Portuguese fleets were defeated, and in 1622 the Portuguese were driven out of the important Persian city of Ormuz.
He remembered having noticed, when he had applied to the porter for information respecting the residence of Ormuz Khan, that upon a window adjoining the entrance had appeared the words "Station Master." The station master's office, therefore, was upon the distant side of the line. Now came the hardest blow of all. The station was closed for the night. Nor was there any light in the signal box.
"He never even saw him, Mr. Harley, that I know of." "It is most extraordinary that he should have given me the impression that this man for I can only suppose that he referred to Ormuz Khan was in some way associated with his fears." "I must remind you, Mr. Harley," Doctor McMurdoch interrupted, "that poor Abingdon was a free talker.
Chorazani or Chorassan is in the very north of Persia, at a vast distance from Ormuz, and he pays no attention to the particulars of his ten days journey which could not have been less than 400 miles. We are almost tempted to suspect the author of romancing.
She knew that her heart was singing, but under the song lay something cold, and when Ormuz Khan had bowed himself from the room, she found herself thinking, not of the newly departed visitor, nor even of Paul Harley, but of her dead father. In spite of the sunshine which flooded the room, her flesh turned cold and she wondered if the uncanny Persian possessed some strange power.
Here he seems to divide Persia geographically into eight provinces. The natives of Persia, according to him, are formidable enemies to the merchants, who are obliged to travel armed with bows and arrows. The principal trade of the country seems to be in horses and asses, which are sent to Kis or Ormuz and thence to India.
In the oldest forms, as in Persia and ancient Egypt, it was Light and Darkness, "Ormuz and Ahriman," "Osiris and Isis," the Light conquering Darkness, the Day conquering Night, resulting in Time and duration.
Nevertheless, pausing at the table, he again took up his pencil, and to the note "Obtain interview with Ormuz Khan" he added the one word, underlined: "To-morrow." The city clocks were chiming the hour of ten on the following morning when a page from the Savoy approached the shop of Mr. Jarvis, bootmaker, which is situated at no great distance from the hotel.
It is abundantly supplied with corn, rice, and dates, from the surrounding country. At Basora I shipped myself for Ormuz, to which I sailed through the Persian gulf 600 miles, which is the distance between Basora and Ormuz.
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