I should have used him long ago , ' said Lurgan . ` The younger the better . That is why I always have my really valuable jewels watched by a child . You sent him to me to try . I tried him in every way : he is the only boy I could not make to see things . ' ` In the crystal -- in the ink-pool ? ' demanded Mahbub . ` No . Under my hand , as I told you . That has never happened before . 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 XXXXX , with peculiar suavity , dropping his heavy blued eyelids .
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