I shall be at El-Kerak myself within the next few days.

I think it can be arranged." "D'you mean I can go with you ?" I asked, as eager as a schoolboy for the circus.
"Not on your life! I don't go as an American." Recalling the first time I had seen him, I sat still and tried to look like a person who was not thrilled in the least by seeing secrets from the inside.
"Well," I said, "I'm in your hands." I think he rather liked that.

As I came to know him more intimately later on he revealed an iron delight in being trusted.
But he did not say another word for several minutes, as if there were maps in his mind that he was conning before reaching a decision.

Then he spoke suddenly.
"Are you busy ?" he asked.

"Then come with me." He phoned to some place or other for a staff automobile, and the man was there with it within three minutes.