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Updated: June 26, 2025
But Ali Baba found his tongue again, and freed himself from his sons after he had drank about a quart of water. "That Ibrahim ben Ah was puzzled," he said. "Allah! But the fool asked questions; and by the Prophet's beard I lied in answer to him! Ho! What a string of lies! Who was I but a sheikh from El-Kalil bringing word to Ali Higg of the movements of a British force!
Ayisha had told most of the truth when she said in El-Kalil that her people lived in tents. We walked down the paved street of a city between oleander bushes that had forced themselves up between the cracks, toward an enormous open amphitheater hewn by the Romans out of a hillside, with countless tiers of ruined stone seats rising one above the other like giant steps.
Ali Baba advised me to shoot too, and I asked him why. "To burst the thing." "But why?" "That we make a profit from this venture." "How?" He paused to reload once more. He had already fired away about fifteen cartridges. "Allah! The very dogs of El-Kalil have heard of Pharaoh's treasure."
"Please tell me where you come from." "From beyond El-Maan." She made a gesture with one hand and her shoulder that suggested illimitable distances. "From which place beyond El-Maan?" She laughed, and you felt she did it not in self-defense, but out of sheer amusement. "Ask the jackal where his hole is! My people live in tents." "Ask El-Kalil. The whole suk talks of me. I have made purchases."
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