On it were written three words--'_Kasredin_', '_cancer_', and '_v.

I._' 'That is the only clue we possess,' he said.

'I cannot construe it, but I can tell you the story.

We have had our agents working in Persia and Mesopotamia for years--mostly young officers of the Indian Army.
They carry their lives in their hands, and now and then one disappears, and the sewers of Baghdad might tell a tale.

But they find out many things, and they count the game worth the candle.