24-01-30 Nine MRS.?LEIDNERS STORY We had just finished lunch. Mrs.?Leidner went to her room to rest as usual. I settled her on her bedwith plenty of pillows and her book, and was leaving the room when she called me?back. Dont go, nurse, theres something I wa...

24-01-30 Eight NIGHT ALARM Its a little difficult to know exactly what to note in the week that followed my arrival at TellYarimjah. Looking back as I do from my present standpoint of knowledge I can see a good many littlesigns and indications that I was qui...

24-01-30 Seven THE MAN AT THE WINDOW I think Id better make it clear right away that there isnt going to be any local colour in this story. I dont know anything about archaeology and I dont know that I very much want to. Messingabout with people and places t...

24-01-30 Six FIRST EVENING After tea Mrs.?Leidner took me to show me my room. Perhaps here I had better give a short description of the arrangement of the rooms. This wasvery simple and can easily be understood by a reference to the plan. On either side of t...

24-01-30 Five TELL YARIMJAH I dont mind admitting that my first impression on seeing Mrs. Leidner was one of downrightsurprise. One gets into the way of imagining a person when one hears them talked about. Id got itfirmly into my head that Mrs.?Leidner was a...

24-01-30 Four I ARRIVE IN HASSANIEH Three days later I left Baghdad. I was sorry to leave Mrs.?Kelsey and the baby, who was a little love and was thrivingsplendidly, gaining her proper number of ounces every week. Major Kelsey took me to the stationand saw m...

24-01-30 Three GOSSIP It was arranged that I should go to Tell Yarimjah the following week. Mrs.?Kelsey was settling into her house at Alwiyah, and I was glad to be able to take a fewthings off her shoulders. During that time I heard one or two allusions to...

24-01-30 Two INTRODUCING AMY LEATHERAN I dont pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. Im doing this simply becauseDr.?Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr.?Reilly asks you to do a thing you dont like torefuse. Oh, but, doctor, I said, I...

24-01-30 One FRONTISPIECE In the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter. Herfountain pen drove briskly over the paper. .?.?. Well, dear, I think thats really all my news. I must say its been nice to see abit of the...

24-01-30 Foreword by Giles Reilly, MD The events chronicled in this narrative took place some four years ago. Circumstances haverendered it necessary, in my opinion, that a straightforward account of them should be given to thepublic. There have been the wil...