Part 44 (1/2)
Chapter XIV
Nothing new! Nothing new!
Nowhere to hide when a reckoning's due, But right earns right, and wrong gets rue, With nothing deducted or given in lieu; And neither the War God, I, nor you Ever could make one lie come true!
Vale, Ceasar!
As Yasmini herself had admitted, she headed from point to point after a manner of her own
”You knohere is Dar es Salaa
”How far is that frolish war-shi+ps watch the Persian Gulf and all the seas frolish any shi+ps that dive under water?”
He nodded again
”In these waters?”
”I think not I'renades you have seen, and the rifles and cartridges were sent by the Ger of African natives Does it begin to grow clear to you, my friend?”
He smiled as well as nodded this time
”Muhammad Anim used to ith a hundred women at a certain place on the seashore What he found on the beach there he made the women carry on their heads to Khinjan And by the time he had hidden what he found and returned fros to find and bring So they worked, he and the Ger the seas as on land lean wolves co whale in the Gulf?”
”No,” said King That was natural There are as a rule about as many whales as salmon in the Persian Gulf
”A German who came to me in Delhi-he who first showed me pictures of an underwater shi+p-said that at that tireat practise Do you suppose their practise e in the Gulf?”
”How should I know, Princess?”
”Because I heard a story later, of an English cruiser on its way up the Gulf, that collided with a whale The shock of hitting it bent many steel plates, and the cruiser had to put back for repair Itwhale, for there wastime afterward So I heard
”And no h the Germans bad promised more And orders for Muhammad Anidad, carried by pilgri from the holy places I know that because I intercepted a letter and threw its bearer into Earth's Drink to save Muha questions”
”What were the ter asked her ”What stipulations did they make?”
”With the tribes? None! They were too wise A jihad was decided on in Gerood time; and when that time should coes would lishain when there was no need? A rifle is what it is The 'Hills' are the 'Hills'!
”Tell h oil in Khinjan Caves to light Bombay! That does not cooes up the Khyber I have seen the printed lists allons of vegetable oil, and all bound for farther north There isn't enough oil pressed a for a day Where does it all cohs at a child's questions, finding delicious enjoyes, not two days' march fro oil for Khinjan Caves,” she said ”The Sleeper fetched his oil thence There are the bones of a camel in a cave I did not show you, and beside the cas still in which the oil was carried Nowadays it coold in here Those who kept the Sleeper's secret paid for the oil in gold No Afghan troubled why oil was needed, so long as gold paid for it, until Abdurrah effort to learn the secret, but he failed When he cut off the supply of oil for a tiates that he thought better of it Of gold and Abdurrah his gold!”