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British out of Palestinc entircly Your country and minę togethcr. Baron You should be proud.

Danin thosc I uturists I Iow could my countrymen havc gonc so wrong?

No timc to think about that now. Banin Wc liavc to gct word to tlić Allics at Basra. How long can your pcoplc hołd thc ciry?

Against thc Turks? I'orcvcr. But thc I uturists with these flying war machincs? 1 do not know. But Basra it is many days’ ridc across thc dcscrr. Thcrc aro thosc who say it cannot be done.

Wc dont havc days. Princcss. Wc havc hours I hcrcs only one thing todo. Baron. I saw a Turkish ornithopter oYerhead thc other day Thcy must havc a smali airficld. Just outsidc thc Jcricho Gatc.

Think you can fly one if we gct you to it?

Bet ter than von Richcnbach himsclf if need be Hy to Basra Ask for Lord George Curzon and tell him ... tell him Mad Jack Carter sent you. Tell him cvcrything you’ve heard.

And what about you. |ack?

I‘m not lcavingherc without thc Profcssor.

But. we do not know whcrc hc is. jack Carter.

No. but our Futurist friend herc. or his colleagues. might well havc sonie answers. At least. I*m kccn to ask thc questions.

But these arc not normal men. my friend. You havc scen their power. but you do not understand thedanger. Princcss. I never understand thc danger