Surely you don't expect me to fight both of them at once! Besides, you must consider Ramsden.
"That fellow Ramsden is big and strong, but he is a nervous wreck.

Give him the least excuse and he will yell for the police like a baby crying for its mother! He looks on Omar as his bodyguard now that he has dismissed me; and if Omar should get killed, or disappear between here and Haifa, Ramsden would demand an escort of police.

In fact, I think he'd lose courage altogether and put that letter in a strong-room in the Haifa bank.

What is the letter, anyway?
What's in it?
How much will you pay me if I get it for you ?" "Never mind what's in it.

Will you get it, that's the point--will you get it and bring it to me ?" "That isn't the point at all," answered Jeremy.