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Updated: May 26, 2025
"But I've reasoned it out this way if Ali Higg sends Ayisha to El-Kalil rather than trust you to do your shopping, that's because he sets a value on you. Since he sends you out in charge of a raid on El-Maan I guess he sets a high value on you. That's as good as saying you've got influence. Believe me, Jael, you'll use that influence to suit my plans or we're not going to be friends!"
A tale was told me of a black-faced liar on a Bishareen dromedary who fled hither from El-Kalil last night to persuade the dogs of this place to bark in some hunt of his. There was mention made of a woman. My men pursued him along the road, but fear gave him wings. Hand him over!" "Allah! He is my guest." "Or let us see whether I cannot fire one shot and summon enough men to eat this place!"
He became suspicious, stood up, resumed his seat and glared at Yussuf Dakmar, who retired into his corner and tried to seem unconscious of the game. "I believe you are a thief one of those light-fingered devils from El-Kalil!" said Jeremy suddenly, after about three minutes' silence. "I believe you have stolen my letter! Like the saint's ass, you are a clever devil, aren't you?
She laughed at last. It was rather a hard laugh without much mirth in it. "Your words are a liar's, but your voice rings true," she said. "I think you're only another of these diplomatists." "I'm that diplomatic I'm chancing my hide to save other peoples," he answered. "Let's be quite frank, Jael. I'm in danger out here. All I've got with me besides two respectable men are thieves from El-Kalil.
Now and then one paused for breath and then the other, but on the whole it was a neck-and-neck race to tell the tale first. "There was a woman in the suk who had heard of Jimgrim but never saw him, and she bought us sweets and took us to her house, and she asked us questions about Jimgrim, and we told lies, and she asked us what we were doing in El-Kalil, and we said nothing, and she said wallah!
Before witnesses I say she is divorced." It's a simple affair in that land, isn't it? But there were matters not so simple to attend to, and Grim saw fit to waste no further time. "I said I come as a friend," he resumed. "I heard it!" the Lion answered dryly. "Without boasting, I have saved you from destruction, while delivering your purchases from El-Kalil.
They came in with their tongues hanging out like a pair of pups, and sticky with the awful stuff men sell for candy in the El-Kalil bazaars. Evidently some woman had been pumping them for information, and Grim made them stand in front of him on the carpet. "Well?" They both spoke at once.
I had one son, but neither art thou he. In the name of the All-Knowing, name thyself!" "I am he," said Grim, "who brought Your Honor's wife from El-Kalil." "Oh! And a million curses on the bint! She tried within the hour to poison me. But for this Indian of thine I were a dead man now. Stay! Send for her!" He clapped his hands. "Let her be flung over the cliff. Go bring her!"
"I am neither a dog," said I, "nor an inhabitant of El-Kalil, for which Allah for his thoughtfulness be praised! Tell me what you and the dogs know." "This place was the treasury of Pharaoh, King of Egypt, a bad king and an unbeliever, whom may Allah curse! In that urn are his gold and rubies. If we can crack it they will come tumbling down and we shall all be rich." "Mashallah! You believe that?
In what way did I become the friend of Ali Higg? Was I not always his friend! Was it not I who fed him when he first escaped from Egypt! Ho-ho-ho! Have I not been working for a year to gather men for him in El-Kalil! Have I not made purchases in El-Kalil and El-Kudz for his wife Ayisha! Il hamdulillah! My tongue was ready! May the lies rot the belly of the fool who ate them!
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