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Updated: June 8, 2025
We conversed quite amicably for more than an hour, she mocking my Arabic pronunciation, but asking innumerable questions about India who my mother was, for instance, and whether my father used to beat her much; what physic was used in India for date-boils; why I had not stayed at home; wasn't I afraid of meeting Ali Higg; and were there such great ones as he in India?
"Wallahi! Doubtless!" laughed Narayan Singh. "Five thousand bastinados each from Ali Higg, while the queen bee laughs at us for fools! Nay, lady Jael, you are Jimgrim's prisoner." "Jimgrim!" she said. "Somewhere I have heard that name."
And who else than the redoubtable Ali Higg would be likely to own such a string of splendid camels he who could take what he coveted, and never coveted anything except the best? The evidence of identity was strong enough for a judge and jury. Men have been hanged in America on less. But that didn't help make the rest of our course any clearer than a fog off Sandy Hook.
But he is no liar, and I will not hear him called one by a woman! Peace, thou fool! It is written that a woman's tongue is worse than water dripping through a roof!" It is manners in that country to sit silent while an old man speaks, and even Jael Higg did not offer to rebuke him for the interruption. When he had quite finished Grim took up the argument again. "Now let's know where we stand.
So they all took turns to go in and pray fervently two-bow prayers as they called them reciting thereafter such scripture as Ali Baba thought suitable and could remember. Hunting about in the ruins I found indubitable human bones. Ayisha, when asked about it, said that Ali Higg had raided the place several months ago and killed or captured every one.
A pleasure voyage, the papers said; and some remembered that I had been in and out of private yachts ever since I ran away from school and booked with Skipper Higg, who sailed Lord Kanton's schooner from the Solent; but others asked themselves what pleasure took a yacht's skipper beyond the Suez, and how it came about that a poor man like Jasper Begg found the money to commission a 500-ton tramp through Philips, Westbury, and Co., and to deal liberally with any shipmate who had a fancy for the trip.
I ranged alongside Jael Higg, with Narayan Singh on the other side of her. At that we were off, Grim leading, well in advance, with Ali Baba and six men in attendance. The moon was a bit behind us by that time, so that I did not have much chance to observe Jael Higg narrowly until she turned her face to speak to me.
As long as she hopes to snare him I am not afraid of her. But what if it should be she who grows afraid as we get nearer to Ali Higg's nest? A woman afraid is worse than a man with a dagger in the dark. Suppose she bolts to Ali Higg and lays information against us what then?" I tried to argue him out of his anxiety, because I wanted to sleep when my turn came.
"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.
He dropped his hands and looked up with a hard, fanatical frenzy in his eyes. But they changed almost instantly. The ranks of Ali Baba's men opened once more; and Jael Higg stepped through, dressed like a fighting Bedouin, bandolier and all. Grim had even let her have a rifle and cartridges. As he promised, he had put her to no indignity. "There is a Trick to Ruling!"
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