Even the Hindus would be stirred to their depths by it; they'd feel that their own sacred places were insecure, and that whoever destroyed them would be protected afterwards by us." "Gosh! Who'd be an Englishman!" laughed Davey.
"I don't see that it's proved yet that the idea of an explosion wasn't Sharnhoff's in the first place," Goodenough objected.
"For one thing, he wouldn't want to destroy antiquities," said Grim.

"They're his obsession.

He worships ancient history and all its monuments.

No, Noureddin Ali thought of the explosion.
He knew that Scharnhoff needed money, so he gave him French money, knowing that would put old Scharnhoff completely in his power.

Then he tipped off some one down at Ludd to watch for a chance to steal some TNT.