well?”
“Personally,
I think
it’s
damned
peculiar.
What do
you know
about him,
Conway? I
mean who
he is, and
so on.”
“Not much
more than
you do. I
understood
he came
from
Persia and
was
supposed
to have
been
oil-prospecting.
It’s his
way to
take
things
easily –
when the
air
evacuation
was
arranged I
had quite
a job to
persuade
him to
join us at
all. He
only
agreed
when I
told him
that an
American
passport
wouldn’t
stop a
