It's Getting Harder All the Time by Troy Conway

Author:Troy Conway [CONWAY, TROY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Erotica, FIC005000
ISBN: 9780446543125
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 1968-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

When I woke up it was eleven the following morning. I had Mazimba fetch me a breakfast consisting of the Belgravian version of steak and eggs—elephant steak and duck’s eggs, it turned out to be. Then my swishy eunuch and I took a walking tour of the palace and its grounds.

The palace was nothing less than sensational. Douzi had duplicated not only the Hunkar Hamami of Muhammad II’s digs in Constantinople but also the First Court, a two story wing where Douzi’s bureaucrats now attended to their paper-shuffling; the Second Court, or Court of the Divan, a three-story wing where the country’s rubberstamp National Assembly held its infrequent sessions; the Third Court, a four-story wing which housed the palace museum, library and treasury; the Fourth Court, a two story wing where higher-ups among Douzi’s lieutenants had their offices; and the various between-wing kiosks, which in Muhammad II’s time had served as repositories for religious relics and which in Douzi’s setup housed various secular art treasures.

The only areas to which I was denied admittance were the selamlik, or Douzi’s personal living quarters; the haremlik, where the girls lived, and the treasury vault. Since the selamlik and haremlik were on the fourth floor of the main building, I wasn’t too concerned that either might contain a secret passage to an underground hideaway where the bombs might be stored or the girls’ laboratory might be located. But the treasury vault was a different matter. It was located on the ground floor of the Third Court, and could very well have doubled as a passage to some underground chamber. I resolved that I’d find out whatever I could about the vault—and do it as soon as I could.

The grounds were equally sensational. I had been impressed with them during my initial tour the day before. But then I had been too wrapped up in Su Wing’s charms to notice many of their finer points. Now, doing a walk through with Mazimba, I found that virtually every detail was a copy of the grounds surrounding Topkapi Sarayi in Constantinople.

I asked Mazimba to take me through the two complexes of smaller buildings located apart from the palace. He was all too pleased to conduct a guided tour of the nearer complex. It was called the Hall of the Eunuchs, and it served as quarters for, in addition to the eunuchs themselves, the palace’s entire complement of service personnel and the members of the Palace Guard. But admission to the farther complex was strictly forbidden, and when I asked Mazimba what the complex contained, he replied that he didn’t know.

I remembered that in Muhammad II’s palace, the Hall of the Eunuchs was reserved for eunuchs only, and the other complex of buildings housed all the non-eunuch palace underlings. Evidently Douzi had crowded his entire staff into the Hall of the Eunuchs and was using the group of buildings in connection with his bomb project. Did these other buildings contain the girls’ laboratory and/or the bomb storage

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