Little Lost Lambs 4 - Colliers by Harold Lamb

Author:Harold Lamb [Lamb, Harold]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

I LOOKED over toward the street of the Book Sellers. Some lights winked out in the stalls, and I thought I recognized a familiar figure among the sharafs, who were closing up their stands.

“You can if you want to,” I said. “Diogenes.”

The sharafs began to tap on the glass, when they recognized us as Americans. I looked into the searching eyes and thought I’d never get to understand these men.

Osman didn’t tap on the glass. He rose from behind his old stand, smiling and touching his heart and forehead. “Eh, Osman,” I asked, “how is it?”

“Well, effendi,” he said, “praise Allah.”

Then I noticed something different about his stand. The inside of the glass was decorated with English five-pound notes.

“Twenty of ’em,” Bailey murmured. “All the cash your Willis had.”

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