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Updated: June 8, 2025
She had a good-looking, strong face, badly freckled, and was probably about forty years old, although that much was hard guessing in the moonlight; for the rest, she looked like the incarnation of activity standing still, but only by suppression. "Now Jael Higg," said Grim, "we'll have no squeamishness about sex. I'm in a tight place, and you'll obey orders or take the consequences.
Can you imagine me not pushing you into Ali Higg's clutches at the first chance?" "Sure I can, or I wouldn't waste time talking. You've got more sense than that, Jael. You might trick me. It has been done. Ali Higg might scupper me and the crowd he mighty likely would.
It occurred to me at the moment as vastly safer to pose as the U.S. President in Washington. Still, Grim had not actually accepted the situation yet. I held my breath, trying to remember to look like a product of Lahore University. "We were on our way to El-Maan, O Ali Higg, not knowing that your honor had a hand in this affair." "Since when is a lion not called a lion?" demanded Grim.
By her bearing she was either a junior wife or a concubine, and she greeted Ayisha like a sister with a great pow-wow of blessing and reply. But Ali Higg cut all that short. He was no sentimentalist. "Find Shammas Abdul," he ordered her. "Order him to take camel and meet the men returning from the Ben Aroun raid. Let him bid them hurry. Go!" She obeyed on the run.
They eyed Grim the while in the same sort of way that men who might be charged with trespass look at the game warden, waiting for him to speak first. "Allah ysabbak bilkhair!" he rolled out at last. "Allah y'a fik, ya Ali Higg!" they answered one after the other.
I said: "O Ali Higg, men said of you that you are a fierce man, swift in wrath and slow to take advice. And others said that you are sick with burning boils; yet who shall go into the Lion's den and heal him? And Ayisha said to me: "'Thou art a hakim, yet he will never listen to thee. But he is my lord, and shall I see him linger in agony? Give me a potion that will weaken him.
"He assumes that I'm a gay Lochinvar who'd like nothing better than to carry off the lady. He wants her carried off and ravished as a spite for Ali Higg. "Well, I didn't exactly fall for that; said I couldn't very well approach Ali Higg afterward, and he admitted that relations in that case might be kind o' strained. So he proposed next that I should meet up with Ali Higg and poison him.
But Narayan Singh strode into the breach. "The Lion's jackals slept," he announced in a voice of righteous indignation. "There was none to give our great Sheikh Jimgrim as much as Allah's blessing. Nevertheless, he sends these presents." Without answering that Ali Higg clapped his hands twice, and a woman came around the corner from a near-by cave.
You can overtake me at Hebron any time before tonight, and if you do, all right; but if second thoughts make you squeamish about crucifixion they tell me that Ali Higg makes a specialty of that I'll say you're wise to stay where you are. In any case I start from Hebron tonight. Suit yourself." Any man in his senses would get squeamish about crucifixion if he sat long enough and thought about it.
"I always aim to prove myself a man's friend or a woman's," he said, "before expecting to be trusted out of sight. I dare say that's your code too?" "If ever Ali Higg catches you with that seal " "He won't catch me, Jael; he won't catch me. But you shall have it back, and the money shan't be touched, if you play straight." She shrugged her shoulders petulantly, admitting defeat but resenting it.
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