But Durrance put no question at all for the moment.
"I wondered," he said slowly.

"I thought that Abou Fatma would hardly return to Berber.

For, indeed, whoever undertook the job undertook it at the risk of his life, and, since Gordon was dead, for no very obvious reason." "Quite so," said Willoughby, in a voice of relief.

It seemed that Durrance's curiosity was satisfied with the knowledge that Abou Fatma had not recovered the letters.

"Quite so.