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Updated: June 18, 2025
"First suggestion he made was that I should take my time on the road and waylay a caravan that's sure to follow. He'd no idea, of course, that the lady Ayisha is to travel with me. His little scheme is to provide her with camels and men on his own account mean camels and his own men, who would run away at the first sign of trouble.
I have heard since that he has become a very good shot with a repeating-pistol, but has difficulty in stealing suitable ammunition. Ayisha wasted no breath on conversation on the way, but whipped her camel to its utmost speed after the first mile, so that we had our work cut out to keep up with her.
"What makes you think he doesn't understand the obvious danger of Ayisha?" said I. "No man from the West ever understood a woman of the East," he answered. That being obviously true Adam did not understand Eve, and no man from anywhere has understood any woman since I had to rack my brains for a different argument. "There are two sure ways of discovering treason," I said at last.
"It was only because Ayisha called out that he caught me. But a fool's luck is like a breath of wind that passes " Suddenly she sat bolt upright and raised her right hand. "Oh, this night! This madness! Of all the dreams, of all the hallucinations, this is the wildest! I warned Ali Higg! I told him my foreboding, and he laughed!" She looked down at me again, and studied me for half a minute.
"What d'you keep looking back for?" "Just keeping tabs on Ayisha." "No need to worry about her. Now we've got Yussuf on our string it's a cinch we can use her whichever way the cat jumps. She'll be afraid he'll tell tales about her." "Hell!" I said. "It seems to me this whole procession's crazy! The best we've got with us is a gang of professional thieves.
Narayan Singh got to his feet with a laugh and a yawn, and went to dance attendance on Ayisha, while Grim reinstructed Yussuf regarding the ease with which the British could impound his Jaffa property; but though I listened to all that, and heard Yussuf's vows of fidelity heard him promise to reverse his former report and spread rumors in Ali's camp of a British army getting ready to advance the prospect to me looked gloomier and gloomier.
That was the first sign that Ali Higg had given of the slightest affection for any one. His face looked ghastly at the thought of losing that strange, half-western wife of his. He had called Ayisha by her name in front of strangers, out of disrespect. Jael he would not name, even when confronted by the proof that she had broken trust and lost his precious seal.
She turned to Narayan Singh; and because in that land, as an almost invariable rule, no business with a chief can be accomplished without bribing his minions, she worked off a little spite and offered largesse with the same hand. "Arrange good terms for me and you shall have Ayisha." "But I have her," said Narayan Singh with a great laugh. "Maybe. But you haven't settled yet with Ali Higg.
But Grim was not the man to spoil success by lingering in what might yet turn into a trap. He who sups with the devil should not sit long at the feast; and I warned you this was a story without an end to it. There is the lady Ayisha, and what became of her, and the account of when and in what way the Lion kept his bargain.
Ayisha seemed about as safe an ambassador to send as an electric spark to a barrel of powder. I glanced at Narayan Singh and felt ashamed, for his eyes glowed unmistakably. He was enthusiastic. Well, it seems I draw a color-line after all. I can't fight like a Sikh, or be as good a man in lots of ways; but I'm not going to be outdone by one in daring, while the Sikh is looking.
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