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But what poor wretch comes hither upon his crutches, desiring, as I think, some speech of me? Friend," continued the physician, addressing Higg, the son of Snell, "I refuse thee not the aid of mine art, but I relieve not with one asper those who beg for alms upon the highway. Out upon thee!
I'm willing to pledge it not to hurt you or Ali Higg, provided you pledge yours to be equally friendly and to help me in taming Ali Higg so's he'll be useful and not just an ordinary trouble-maker." "Would you accept my word?" she asked him ready to consider him fool or liar, according to how he answered. "I'll accept it, Jael. Sure.
One or two of the women checked a scream, which helped matters, and the others shrank into a corner, staring with wild eyes. One woman laughed, but not from amusement. "Salamun alaik, O Ali Higg!" said Grim after a full minute's silence. "Wa alaik issalam! Who are you, in the name of Allah?" Instead of answering Grim strode in, and Ali Baba lined up his sons across the cave-mouth.
Shout to 'em; d'you hear!" "Ayisha! What does this mean? Ali? Ali Higg? You here? I don't understand!" "You'll be dead before you understand if you don't call those men off," Grim answered; and his pistol demonstrated that he meant it, for her men were closing in on us. So she knelt up on her camel and cried out that Ali Higg was there, bidding them keep their distance.
But she was not long about doing that say fifteen minutes nine hundred seconds; suppressed curiosity can work up a pretty high pressure in that time. "Who is this man who looks like Ali Higg?" she asked me suddenly, and I had a good look at her face; you don't have to answer questions without thinking, just because they are asked by a woman in a friendly tone of voice.
But I can see as far through a stone wall as any blind horse can, and I know better maybe than you do, Jael that all they'll get by cutting loose and playing pirates is the worst end of it. I hate to see them lose out, so I use what gifts I've got in their behalf." "Do you call it helping us to come out against Ali Higg and kidnap his wives?" she retorted. "Ali Higg is a patriot.
Grim shook his head. "He'd be too afraid he might meet me some day. He knows I'd not stand for it. No, Jael; I invited you to talk sense. You've got to make shift with Ali Higg `as is'. If you don't like it say so now and I'll tell off three or four of my thieves to escort you over the border into British territory while I play this game without you.
His cloak was the same color. He had been dressed rather differently when I last saw him, so he must have been doing some pretty careful spy-work. Of course, a close examination showed a dozen differences between the two men, but in his weak state following that drastic physic and the operation Ali Higg believed for a moment that he saw his own ghost!
Then we all got under the shelter of the low tents to give the other camels a rest and wait for evening, and I think Jael Higg slept, but I don't know, for we gave her a tent to herself; she refused point blank to share one with Ayisha. And Ayisha, I know, did not sleep.
Grim had come out on his hair-raising venture because no army was available to deal with Ali Higg, and he would not have ventured unless powers-that-pretend-to-be were sure that Ali Higg was deadly dangerous. Did the peace of the world, then, depend on the success or otherwise of a Sikh's mock love-making. It did look like it.
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