"By Jiminy, she has scratched the wrong dog's ear!" he growled to me as
we went to the door together.

"They're all in there!" I said excitedly, when the door slammed shut
behind us. "Hurry down and get me a gun! I'll hold the door while you
run for police and have 'em l arrested!"

"Piffle!" he said. "Come on! Three Sultan's witnesses and two lone
white women against us two--come away! Come away!"

Monty and Fred were still out, so we went to our own room.

"I'm wondering," I said, "what Monty will say."

"I'm not!" said Will. "I'm not troubling, either! I'm not going to
tell Monty a blessed word! See here--she thinks she knows where some
o' that ivory is. Maybe the government of German East Africa is in on
the deal, and maybe not; that makes no present difference. She thinks
she's wise. And she has fixed up with the Sultan to have him claim it
when found, so's she'll get a fat slice of the melon. There's a scheme
on to get the stuff, when who should come on the scene but our little
party, and that makes 'em all nervous, 'cause Monty's a bad man to be
up against. Remember: she claimed that she knows Monty and he knows
her. She means by that that he knows she's a desperado, and she thinks
he'll draw the line at a trip that promises murder and blackmail and
such like dirty work. So she puts a scare into us with a view to our
throwing a scare into him. If I scare any one, it's going to be that
dame herself. I'll not tell Monty a thing!"

"How about Coutlass the Greek?" said I. "D'you suppose he's her