Or, if I choose, I can use that fellow Omar who is travelling with Ramsden; he would like to be my accomplice, but I don't trust him very much." "In that you are perfectly right," answered Jeremy.

"He is not at all the sort of man for you to trust.

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that he has warned Ramsden against you already! Better beware of him!" According to Jeremy's account of the conversation afterward, it was not until that moment that he saw clearly how to prevent Yussuf Dakmar from calling in thugs to attack me either at Haifa or at some point between there and Damascus.

Until then he had been feeling his way along-- "spieling," as he calls it--keeping his man interested while he made all ready for the next trick.
"To tell you the truth," he went on, "Omar isn't that fellow's real name.

He is a sharp one, and he is after the letter every bit as much as you are." "How do you know that ?" "Wallah, how not?
because he himself told me! just like you, he tried to get me into partnership.