It means that he is strong enough -- but you think it skittles , Colonel Creighton -- to make anyone do anything he wants . And that is three years ago . I have taught him a good deal since , Colonel Creighton . I think you waste him now . ' ` Hmm ! Maybe you 're right . But , as you know , there is no Survey work for him at present . ' ` Let him out let him go , ' Mahbub interrupted . ` Who expects any colt to carry heavy weight at first ? Let him run with the caravans -- like our white camel-colts -- for luck . I would take him myself , but -- ' ` There is a little business where he would be most useful -- in the South , ' said Lurgan , with peculiar suavity , dropping his heavy blued eyelids . ` E. 23 has that in hand , ' said Creighton quickly . ` He must not go down there . Besides , he knows no Turki . ' ` Only tell him the shape and the smell of the letters we want and he will bring them back , ' Lurgan insisted . ` No . That is a man 's job , ' said Creighton . It was a wry-necked matter of unauthorized and incendiary correspondence between a person who claimed to be the ultimate authority in all matters of the Mohammedan religion throughout the world , and a younger member of a royal house who had been brought to book for kidnapping women within British territory . The Moslem Archbishop had been emphatic and over-arrogant ; the young prince was merely sulky at the curtailment of his privileges , but there was no need he should continue a correspondence which might some day compromise him . One letter indeed had been procured , but the finder was later found dead by the roadside in the habit of an Arab trader , as E. 23 , taking up the work , duly reported .
These facts , and a few others not to be published , made both Mahbub and XXXXX shake their heads .
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