[Jimgrim and Allah’s Peace by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookJimgrim and Allah’s Peace CHAPTER Seventeen 27/31
We're going.
Now, let me have a good account of you to give to Jimgrim.
Shut your teeth tight, and remember the part you've got to play." He scrambled up the steps ahead of me, and I had to keep hold of the skirts of his smock to prevent him from running.
But he took my hand at the top, and we managed to get out through the north door without exciting comment, and without waking the spy, although I would just as soon have wakened him, for Grim seemed to think it important that his alibi and mine should be well established; however, there were two others watching by the hotel.
Ten minutes later I was glad I had not disturbed him. I gave Suliman a two-piastre piece to pay the man who had charge of my slippers at the door, and the young rascal was so far recovered from his fright that he demanded change out of it, and stood there arguing until he got it.
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