Let us talk business.

I reward my friends, but woe betide the fool who betrays my confidence!" said Yussuf Dakmar darkly.
"I see you are a man after my own heart," answered Jeremy; "a thorough fellow who stops at nothing! Good! Allah must have brought us two together for an evil purpose, being doubtless weary of the League of Nations; Unbosom! I am like a well, into which men drop things and never see them any more." "You are a fine rascal, I can see that clearly! So you think that Allah is cooking up evil, do you?
Tee-hee! That is an original idea, and there may be something in it.

Let us hope there is something in it for us two, at all events.

Now, as to that fellow Ramsden--" "Avoid him unless he is drunk," advised Jeremy.

"The weight of his fist would drive a man like you like a nail into a tree." "Who fears such an ox ?" the Syrian retorted.