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Talbot Mundy. C.I.D.
C.I.D
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 "There is no such person. There is no such country."
CHAPTER 2 "I am sent by Soonya"
CHAPTER 3 "Isn't that brute dead yet?"
CHAPTER 4 "This is from the fat babu who ate your dinner"
CHAPTER 5 "I need a new knife, sahib"
CHAPTER 6 "The trouble with impossibilities is that they so often happen"
CHAPTER 7 "You should have been the Unknown Soldier"
CHAPTER 8 "It happened thiswise, sahibs"
CHAPTER 9 "Talk with one another"
CHAPTER 10 "Whoever it is, is as scared as I am"
CHAPTER 11 "How about a permit?"
CHAPTER 12 "The devil quotes scripture, sahib"
CHAPTER 13 "Let us hope you have no conscience"
CHAPTER 14 "We nibblers at the thread say nothing"
CHAPTER 15 "Not yet!"
CHAPTER 16 "I kiss feet, Heavenborn!"
CHAPTER 17 "Sappier and verbier than you guess! Hurry! Hurry!"
CHAPTER 18 "I know devils when I see them!"
CHAPTER 19 "C.3 meant to do that, if he did it"
CHAPTER 20 "It will probably be something!"
CHAPTER 21 "What are good guys for?"
CHAPTER 22 "You shall drink with it to your own health, you devil!"
CHAPTER 23 "A tiger comes quick as a punch in the eye!"
CHAPTER 24 "Simple! Since they wished it, why not?"
CHAPTER 25 "Accept my humble praises, sahib"
THE END
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Talbot Mundy
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"Can't say I have," said Copeland. "But a fellow needs a steady nerve at my trade. There isn't much room for error when you operate on eyes, for instance. I can handle a rifle. I've a good one that I've used quite a bit. Say, look here! I don't know of anything that I can offer you, but perhaps you can think of something. You can get into Kutchdullub, and you're going. I want people suffering from cataract to come and see me. And I want to shoot a tiger. Help me in either of those respects, and name your quid pro quo. If I can match you, I will."
Swiftly, penetratingly, and only once, the babu glanced at him; his brown eyes almost changed their shape during that fraction of a second, and their color glowed like amber with a light behind it. Then he looked down at his goat chop.
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