"I don't want to be caught here; and as for those papers you have taken, if we are caught I shall say you stole them from the office--you and Yussuf Dakmar, and that I followed you to recover them, and you both attacked me!" "Very well," said Grim's voice pleasantly.

"I'll let you go.

I think you're dangerous.

You'd better be quick, because I think I hear the guard coming!" "Give me back the papers, then!" "Aha! Will you wait and discuss them with the guard, or go at once ?" The Armenian clerk didn't answer, but got up and slunk away.
"Why did you let that fool go ?" demanded Yussuf Dakmar.

"Now he will awaken some officer and start hue and cry with a story that we robbed him.