"It's to be a female hat, and Mabel gets it.

Order an expensive one from Paris, Mabel; Jeremy shall pay.
We've lots of other information.

The troops here have been warned of an intended massacre of Jews.

The arrival of this letter probably puts a date to it.
"But it puts a date to something else on which the whole future of the Near East hangs; and that means the future of half the world, and maybe the whole of it, because about three hundred million Mohammedans are watching Feisul and will govern themselves accordingly.

India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, all Northern Africa--there's almost no limit to what depends on Feisul's safety; and the French can't or won't understand that." There came the sound of heavy ammunition boots outside on the stone step, followed by a cough that I believe I could recognize among a thousand.