I know Jerusalem from end to end.

I know all the likely places.

Why don't you get permission for me to wander about Jerusalem undisturbed and keep my eye open for tomb-robbers?
If I am not to have the privilege of discovering that Book of Chronicles, at least I would like to see that no common plunderer gets it.

Surely I am known by now to be harmless! Surely they don't suspect me any longer of being an agent of the Kaiser, or any such nonsense as that! Why not make use of me?
Get me a permit, please, Major Grim, to go where I please by day or night without interference.

Tomb-robbers usually work at night, you know." "All right," said Grim.