The Mule On the Minaret (1965)
“Then suddenly the heat of summer falls: the hot, dry wind, the Khamsin, from the desert is followed by a clinging humid heat and the rich Beirutis hasten into the cool of the hills, into Aley and Brumana. On a May morning, with the fan whirring in the office, Reid studied the Amin Marun file. It had received a number of entries in recent weeks. The first folio contained an account of the first Monday in Tanio’s Café. Chessman had brought down a marked copy of the Palestine Post. The paper was brought to the Beirut office. It contained a special inquiry about Australians. Had many of them been observed recently? The paper was delivered by a friend of Abdul Hamid. It was intended that the paper should be brought on each occasion by a different bearer. Aziz was instructed to deliver his reply in the Bassoul Café on the following Thursday. He reported that he had seen a number of men in uniform wearing Australian hats, but that he did not think they were fighting troops. He thought they w...ere working on the railway that was being constructed from the Turkish frontier to Cairo.MoreLess
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