He himself disappeared, and when I questioned his men they told me the explosive would be brought in hidden under fruit in baskets.

I waited then in the hope of killing him myself--" "Hah-hah!" laughed Grim.
"That is true! But they bound me, and later on bound the woman, and laid us here to be blown up together with the mosque." Grim turned to Goodenough, who had been listening.
"Do I win the bet, sir ?" "Ten piastoes!" said Goodenough.

"Yes.

Narayan Singh says Noureddin Ali was gone by the time they reached the wall." "Sure, or he'd have brought Noureddin Ali.

I've been thinking, sir.