[Affair in Araby by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookAffair in Araby CHAPTER II 16/29
fall ?" asked Grim. "Like a new chum off a brumby.
Signs anything I shove under his nose. Comes round to our house to eat Mabel's damper and syrup three nights a week.
You bet he'll sign it: Besides, he's white; pulled out of the firing-line by an Australian at Gaza, and hasn't forgotten it.
He'd sign anything but checks to help an Anzac.
I'll be going. "You trot up to the slaughter-shop, Grim, and interview that Arab--Sidi bin Something-or-Other--forget his name--he lies in number nineteen cot on the left-hand side of the long ward, next to a Pathan who's shy both legs.
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