I stooped down close to the floor, so that he might fire over my head if, as I suspected, he was merely gaining time in order to take sure aim.

I tried to see which end of the table he was talking from, but he was hidden completely.
"Do you think you should go free, to perpetrate more cowardly interference, after spoiling that well-laid plan?
Hee-hee! You poor fool! Busy-bodies such as you invariably overreach themselves.

Having tricked me two or three times, you thought, didn't you?
that you could draw me here to kill Scharnhoff, that poor old sheep.

You were careful, weren't you?
to let Omar Mahmoud go, in order that he might tell me how Scharnhoff had turned witness against us.

And the Sikhs followed Omar Mahmoud, until Omar Mahmoud found me.