MauritiusOleson walked across the lawn ready to give El Hajj an earful after what had happened to Lorna. He strode on angrily and then heard a thudding noise as if a car had back fired. He turned and to his amazement saw the Arab fall in front of him. “Bloody hell, he’s been shot,” he yelled and turned around and stormed back into the house. “Who’s been shot?” queried Benson? “El Hajj, the bloody Arab, I was walking out there to confront him, to tell him it wasn’t my men who shot his people in Mojacar when this happens and the bloody Teacher will think I did it.”
“Surely it was The Teacher's men?”
“Who knows? Damnation! This changes everything; I bet the bloody Maverick did it, the same bastard The Teacher has mentioned before.”
“But you wanted El Hajj out of the way.”
“Not this way, i
