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CONTENTS

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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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