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Nothing but Monty's voice prevented blows. He rapped out a string of sudden rhetoric in the Rajput's own guttural tongue, and Rustum Khan drew back four paces. "Send him back, Colonel sahib!" he urged. "Send that one back! He and Umm Kulsum will be the death of us!" Fred went off into a peal of laughter that did nothing to calm the Rajput's ruffled temper. "Who was Umm Kulsum?"
She whom the Lion could not trust to go to Hebron? Um Kulsum!"* * Um Kulsum was a lady in Arabic legend whose immoralities have made her name a byword. Ayisha passed on with a scornful shoulder movement. Narayan Singh grinned with malicious amusement. And I was just in time to catch two of the men again attacking my medicine-chest.
He seemed in no hurry to follow farther, but drew rein between us and saluted with the semi-military gesture with which he favored all who, unlike Monty, had not been Colonels of Indian regiments. "I tracked Umm Kulsum through the dark!" he announced, rubbing the burned nodules out of his singed beard and then patting his mare's neck.
Rustum Khan called out. "If ought should happen to my Colonel sahib that Umm Kulsum shall be first to die. The women shall tell of her death for a generation, to frighten naughty children!" "You hear that?" demanded Fred. Maga laughed again, and swore in some outlandish tongue. "I hear!
On my way hither I saw Umm Kulsum, with that jackal trotting at her heel he made a scornful gesture in the direction of Peter Measel, who winced perceptibly, at which Fred Oakes chuckled and nudged me "and I followed Umm Kulsum, to observe what harm she might intend." "Black pig!" remarked Maga, but Rustum Khan merely turned his splendid back a trifle more toward her.
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