D'you get me ?" "You mean, you'll use me as intermediary?
Messages to and from ben Hamza and that sort of thing ?" "That's the idea, but there's more to it.

Did you bring that Bible along?
Are you superstitious?
Any notions like Long John Silver's about its being bad luck to spoil a Bible?
All right.
Keep it in your pocket to make notes in.

If you can't get the whole book to me, tear a page out and send that, or give it to me, with the message spelled in dots under the words.

Make the dots faint, I've good eyes." "What sort of notes do you want from me ?" "You mustn't mistake me for the prophet Ezekiel," he answered, grinning.

"'Thus saith the Lord' is all right when you know what you're talking about.