Caravans By Night - A Romance of India
Book Author Harry Hervey
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Yet, he told himself, he had not been robbed. So why be uneasy? But he could not rid himself of the uncanny suspicion that devil-business was afoot. He would feel more secure had he not lost the Sulaimaneh ring.
Upon an impulse he went to the door and peered into the street. The shop of Venekiah, the Brahmin, was dark. From a nautch-house close by came the muffled throbbing of tom-toms--a restless pulse of the night. A man in a Punjabi head-dress lounged under a rheumy incandescent further along the dim street.
Muhafiz Ali turned back, gravely troubled. He locked the door.
Of a certainty devil-business was afoot.