SLSL: Under the Rose - Let it Rain

[Samuel Moyer]

Let it rain - soon, thought Porpentine...  smoking his Camels, well Turkish
cigarettes anyway... The Turks, along with the English, I believe, exercise
some control over portions of Egypt at this time.

http://alexandriatour.com/alextown.htm

A coupla photos of Place Mohamed Ali... you can almost make Porpentine
sipping at his coffee in one of them... Possibly the Austrian Embassy is in
there too... where is my Baedeker when I need it?

http://cfegypt.www3.50megs.com/cgi-bin/i/Alexandria/Mohamed_Ali_Square_A.jpg

http://cfegypt.www3.50megs.com/cgi-bin/i/Alexandria/Mohamed_Ali_Square_B.jpg

So Porpentine is nervous, looking around, waiting for sign of Moldweorp, the
Veteran Spy from Germany.  Moldweorp, like Porpentine, was old school, from
an earlier generation of spies - a tradition running out of time.

102:8  a tradition in espionage where everything was tacitly on a
gentlemanly basis, where the playing-fields of Eton had conditioned (one
might say) premilitary conduct as well...

The playing fields of Eton... where the Duke of Wellington claimed the
Battle of Waterloo had been won... a boys school.

http://www.london-schulreisen.de/central/eton_college.html
"The world famous ETON COLLEGE, founded by Royal Charter of Henry VI in
1440, lies appropriately within walking distance of Windsor Castle. It is
Britain's most aristocratic school which, in the five and half centuries of
its existence, has produced men of fame in all walks of life. At the height
of its influence in the 19th and early 20th centuries, old Etonians
constituted over 50% of some Conservative Governments.

Its prestige continues to this day, both the Royal Princes, William and
Harry, are Eton-educated.

The school is surrounded by many playing fields. Sport has always featured
strongly and Wellington's victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 is said
to have been won on the playing fields of Eton."


sam