If you move before I give you leave you are a dead man, Major Jimgrim! Hee-hee! You cannot see me! Better keep still!" If it was flattering to be mistaken for Grim in the dark, it was hardly pleasant in the circumstances.

For a moment I was angry.
It flashed across my mind that Grim had planned this.

But on second thought I refused to believe he would deceive me about Scharnhoff and use me as a decoy without my permission.

I decided to keep still and see what happened.
"Do you think you deserve to live, Major Jimgrim ?" Noureddin Ali's voice went on.

I heard him shift his position.