That right, Grim ?" Grim nodded.

It was Mabel who objected.
"I'm going to see this through," she answered.

"Guess again, boys! My hair's gone gray.

You owe me a real adventure now, and I won't give up the letter till you've paid!" We had one first-class scare when the train drew up in the squalid station, where the branch line to Haifa meets the main Hedjaz railway and the two together touch a mean town at a tangent; for a French officer in uniform boarded the train and stalked down the corridors staring hard at everyone.

He asked me for a passport, which was sheer bluff, so I asked him in turn for his own authority.