...r of his trousers and the tear of his glove. You’d have expected a sort of pinky to show, wouldn’t you? Well—there wasn’t none. Just blackness. I tell... .... He it must have been who cut the telegraph wire to Adderdean just beyond Higgins’ cottage on the Adderdean road. And after that, as his peculiar qua...

...and the Sultan and all that. He said that there was nearly a row over the ‘Higgins-Pasha’ incident, and that the Brit- ish agent put it pretty straigh... ... go to when they die.” “But say,” remarked Hirsch, “what is that about the Higgins-Pasha business? I thought that was over long ago.” “Oh, it is,” ans... ...rsch paused. “Oh! All right,” he said, then he added: “Say, how about that Higgins-Pasha affair? You remem- ber that row between England and Turkey. T... ...now. They tell me there may be trouble between England and Turkey over the Higgins-Pasha incident, and that the British Foreign Office has threatened ... ...aited for the Associated people or the Commercial people then?” “It’s that Higgins-pasha incident, I’ll bet,” observed Rusbridge, his eyes snapping. “... ...nd gets their names wrong, as though it didn’t much matter, and calls them Pinky when their name is Pinckney, and don’t listen to what they say, till ...