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Transcriber's Note: Inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation have been retained as printed.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Prologue. | Through the Looking Glass | [3] |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | Pain, Purgatory, and a Plan | [13] |
| II. | The Flight That Failed | [27] |
| III. | Nazareth; and the Christian Charity of a Jew | [39] |
| IV. | Damascus; and the Second Failure | [64] |
| V. | The Berlin-Bagdad Railway; and the Aeroplanes That Never Flew | [90] |
| VI. | Cuthbert, Alfonso, and a Mud Village | [110] |
| VII. | In the Shadow of the Black Rock | [124] |
| VIII. | Constantinople; and How to Become Mad | [140] |
| IX. | Introducing Theodore the Greek, John Willie the Bosnian, and David Lloyd George's Second Cousin | [159] |
| X. | The Third and Fourth Failures | [175] |
| XI. | A Greek Waitress, a German Beerhouse, a Turkish Policeman, and a Russian Ship | [189] |
| XII. | The Face at the Window | [203] |
| XIII. | A Shipload of Rogues | [213] |
| XIV. | The City of Disguises | [230] |
| XV. | Stowaways, Inc. | [250] |
| XVI. | A Russian Interlude | [266] |
| XVII. | Sofia, Salonika, and So to Bed | [281] |
| Epilogue. | A Damascus Postscript; and Some Words on the Knights of Araby, A Crusader in Shorts, a Very Noble Ladye, and Some Happy Endings | [286] |
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