pretty sure to follow us. One will probably
follow me back here again. The other will stay to keep an eye on
you. About an hour before dawn, in case nothing happens before
that, you and Suliman come back here to the hotel. The car shall
be here half-an-hour before daylight. You and Turner pile into
it, and those three men watch you drive away. They'll hurry off
to tell Noureddin Ali that Staff-Captain Ali Mirza and the
deaf-and-dumb man have really started for Damascus, bags of gold
and all.

"Turner must remember to drop a couple of bags and pick them up
again, to call attention to them. There'll be a change of
clothes in the car for you. When you've gone a mile or so, get
into the other clothes and walk back. If I don't meet you by the
Jaffa Gate, Suliman will, or else Narayan Singh. Things are
liable to happen pretty fast tomorrow morning. Let's go.

"I'm supposed to have found out somehow that you're awful
religious and want to pray, so it's the Dome of the Rock for
yours. Any Moslem who wants to may sleep there, you know. But
any Christian caught kidding them he's a Moslem would be for it--
short shrift. He'd be dead before the sheikh of the place could
hand him over to the authorities. If the TNT were really in
place underneath you, which I'm pretty sure it won't be for a few
hours yet, that would be lots safer than the other chance you're
taking. So peel your wits. Let Suliman sleep if he wants to,
but you'll have to keep awake all night."

"But what am I to do in there? What's likely to happen?"

"Just listen. The tunnel isn't through to the end yet, I'm sure
of it. If it were, they'd have taken in the TNT, for it must be
ticklish work keeping it hidden elsewhere, with scores of Sikhs
watching day and night. But they're very near the end of the
tunnel, or they wouldn't be opening up that fruit stand. You'll
hear them break through. When you're absolutely sure of that,
come out of the mosque and say Atcha--just that one word--to the
Sikh sentry you'll see standing under the archway through which
we'll enter the courtyard presently. That sentry will be Narayan
Singh, and he'll know what to do."

"What shall I do after that?"

"Suit yourself. Either return to the mosque and go to sleep, if
you can trust yourself to wake in time, or come and sit on the
hotel step until morning. Have you got it all clear? It's a
piece of good luck having you to do all this. No real Moslem
would e