Adventure, February 20, 1922 — page 43: what you’re looking at

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so esas Ba Sera The Seventeen Thieves of: El-Kalil quiet no action is expected to be taken in your direction before tomorrow morning, when a Sikh patrol will be sent with machine guns if it can be spared. P report by bearer if there are any symptoms of a concerted attack on Jerusalem, rumors having reached us. It was signed by the same staff-major who had written the message of the day before. But this time there was a foot-note, not typewritten but in the angular long- hand of the administrator himself. Kettle. “That postscript’s typical of ‘Pots and Pans,’ ”’ said Grim. “T’ll bet he’s sent help to some of the weak sisters elsewhere and counts on you fellows to worry through. There’s probably a raid in force coming up from the Jordan Valley and every available man in Jerusalem combed up to deal with it. How will you answer?” De Crespigny wrote two lines and showed them: Carry on, boys. Carrying on, sir. ~No sign of attack on Jerusalem _ from this place yet. Sikhs welcome when available. “Good!” said Grim. Man fired at on the way?” “Says not.” “That proves nothing,” put in Cameron. “T’ve been five-and-twenty years here, and know their ways. They’re flocking into the city. So the fields are deserted. The Turks understood how to deal with them. The Turks, in a crisis like this, would have hanged out of hand any man found in the streets who did not belong to the city. I’ve seen them strung up in front of the jail in a row like haddock drying in the sun. Djemal Pasha would have straightened out this business in less than half a day. He was a rascal, though; he’d have lined his pockets afterwards with fines that would have kept them all too poor to make trouble for a year to come! Well, we’re not Turks and they’re gone. But I heard ex-president Roosevelt speak in Egypt. ‘Rule or get out!’ That was his advice. Speaking as a missionary, I’d say take the latter half of “it—get out! Teach, yes, if they'll listen; but teach ’°em what? They’re as moral as we are. Teach ’em our Western commer- cialism? God forbid! Literature? We don’t read our own books, so why should they? Which of you can quote me half a line from Robbie Burns?” “Speaking of burns, doc,” put in Grim, en au” ee ee aN “He likes telegrams. - 4l “You’ve got to teach me some gree before lunch—something to prevent them.” “T’m a very busy man.’ - “Have you plenty of drugs?” .“T’ve plenty of nothing! Fifteen hundred pounds a year our Mission scrapes together for this hospital, and out of that must come my salary, if, as and when I choose to draw — it. Dve drawn it seven times in twenty years. Ye’d think Hebron would contribute something; it did at times under the Turks; but now all the rascals do is steal my stores. Teach, eh? Come wi’ me to the hospital and I’ll show ye how one man and one trained nurse care for eighty patients in a forenoon.” me SO COHEN, Grim and I walked over with him and the lady from the Hebrides and he barked with pleas- . ure at sight of the paper packets that Grim _ laid on his office table in the trim stone 7 > mission building. <a “This man Cohen has got to be made - — fire-proof!’”’ Grim announced. a aS Cameron smiled. = a “Has Miss Gordon’s sermon made him “The point is, can you do it for us, doc? Or fust we experiment?” Baier “Well, there are preparations that so indurate the cuticle as to rerftler it insensi- . ble to a very high degree of heat.”’ SS “Are the ingredients in these packets?” ae “Aye, some of them. These could be > improved on.’ 5 “What would you add?’’. “Quicksilver, but I’ve none to spare. on I think I can recall a formula, though, that I once used for the hands of a Turkish sol- dier who was employed in the castle armory — on some hot metal work. Let’s see—mnmn —spirit of sulfur—onion juice—essence of rosemary—sal ammoniac—that’s all. _ You could make a paste of these drugs on the table, but it would be liable to form a hard so afraid of hell as that?” : ’ ¢ ry we Phy *y P 1 rt y ) in ou ne ieee eo Os Ue eel Pe f 4 - Ty toy film that might crack, with dangerous con- at sequences. The other’s better; I’ve a notion a it’s what they used in medieval times when sy people went through the ordeal by fire— a walking on hot plow-shares, ye know, and =r all that hocus-pocus.” RES “‘Here’s your patient,” said Grim. “Make eae him hell-proof, please!” "S He pulled Cohen forward by the arm 35 and the poor chap’s face changed color = under the tan. a ; “com (| oXoXo) Ss € ex