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and was now driving down the road to Damascus, pleading with the fleeing Arabs to come back to Safad. But to win, he war- ned them with broad winks, you must pull and trip the fat Jews or they will finish ahead of you. He said to Cullinane: Have I ever told you about the defense of Acre? You know, as Sir Tewfik Tabari's So we're working, the men replied.

and a marvelous Sephardi named Bagdadi, whom I think of very much these days. And each would have in his pockets, to bolster his peti- tion, a handful of gold coins, dependable, negotiable English sovereigns. fered a small silver dish from Athens containing Persian violets crystallized in transparent sugar. But Gottesmann had picked Bagdadi as his third man for good reasons.