The Great Game is afoot...

[Mark Kohut]

MB wrote out: 
 
705 29 "It was an index of how far Cyprian's insouciance
had lapsed that he never thought of simply asking his
field supervisor what was afoot."

Cf. famous Sherlock Holmes quote and the Great Game notion:
 

"It was on a bitterly cold night and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of 1897, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face, and told me at a glance that something was amiss.

"'Come, Watson, come!" he cried. "The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!''" 
>From "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1904.


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