I did not realize how thin our story was, and how easily Rasta might have a big graft at headquarters.

If I had, I would have shot out the German lieutenant long before we got to Erzerum, and found some way of getting mixed up in the ruck of the population.
Hussin could have helped me to that.

I was getting so confident since our interview with Posselt that I thought I could bluff the whole outfit.
But my main business that afternoon was pure nonsense.

I was trying to find my little hill.

At every turn of the road I expected to see the _castrol_ before us.