may pass; but any halting now and the game is done."

"And you want the game to go on right bad, don't you? Well, I guess
you're right. Money is the only winner in this race. He's got to have
money, sure. How much can you raise? Oh, yes, you told me! Well, I
don't think it's enough; he's got to have three times that; and if he
can't get it from the Government, or from Kaid, it's a bad lookout.
What's the bargain you have in your mind?"

"That the slave-trade continue, effendi."

Lacey did not wink, but he had a shock of surprise. On the instant he
saw the trap--for the Saadat and for himself.

"He would not do it--not for money, pasha."

"He would not be doing it for money. The time is not ripe for it, it is
too dangerous. There is a time for all things. If he will but wait!"

"I wouldn't like to be the man that'd name the thing to him. As you say,
he's got his prejudices. They're stronger than in most men."

"It need not be named to him. Thou canst accept the money for him, and
when thou art in the Soudan, and he is going to do it, thou canst prevent
it."

"Tell him that I've taken the money and that he's used it, and he
oughtn't to go back on the bargain I made for him? So that he'll be
bound by what I did?"