The Hundred Days
The Hundred Days
“Well listen now: Ahmed is a Cainite too. We recognized one another at once. He knows roughly the nature of our visit - he knows that we are not travelling for medical experience or knowledge - he wishes to be useful to us, being entirely on our side, and he offers his services.’ ‘Amos, my dear, you are a deeply experienced intelligence agent: tell me in all seriousness how sound a source of information he is, what kind of information he can give, and at what price.’ ‘A sounder source we could n...ot wish: as for the kind of information, he has shown me a copy of the Vizier’s message to the Sheikh of Azgar, Ibn Hazm, telling him to recall his caravan at once and to load the treasure aboard a wonderfully fast-sailing xebec that has already left for Arzila, a little shallow fishing-harbour in Shiite territory just north of Laraish: Yahya ben Khaled, the captain of the xebec and the most capable and fortunate corsair in Algiers, will wait there with a very strong guard until the wind comes into the west, and then he will sail, passing through the Strait of Gibraltar in the darkness, with the wind and the strong eastward current driving him at great speed, and head straight for Durazzo by the sea-lanes he knows best, the fastest.’ Stephen sat considering: then he nodded and said, ‘There was no mention of reward, I collect?’ ‘None.MoreLess
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