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Then: "Is it money your Sheikh Jimgrim wants?" she asked at last. "Does he hold me to ransom? If so, I will give him a draft on the Bank of Egypt. I have Ali Higg's seal here, and I write all his letters." I did not answer, but Narayan Singh checked his camel a stride or two to make a signal to me behind her back. "Hah!" he remarked with an air of triumph.
So when you are accused of not observing this or that, or of acting with impropriety, confound the Bedouin always by sneering at their ignorance, saying that where you come from men know what is proper. And Jimgrim, having truly made the pilgrimage to Mecca, will confound them likewise, having knowledge, whereas most of these rascals only know by hearsay."
And more and more frequently as the song grew lurid and they warmed to the refrain they made their point by changing the third Akbar into Jimgrim: "Akbar! Akbar! Jimgrim Ali Higg!"
"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."
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!
They have talent. Shall they sit still and grow fat like a pasha in the harem?" "So I said I'd find them some honest employment from time to time." "That was a good promise. Here already is employment. But you know, Jimgrim, they are used to rich profits in return for running risks. Danger is meat and drink to them." "They shall have their fill this trip!" said Grim. "Taib.
But the reward should be proportionate." "Government wages!" Grim answered firmly. The old Arab smiled. "Under the Turks," he answered, "the officer pocketed the pay, and the men might help themselves." "D'you take me for a Turk?" asked Grim. "No, Jimgrim. I know you for a cunning contriver an upsetter of calculations but no Turk.
However, after one swift glance at him, Grim took no notice until the train was under way not even then in fact, until the man in blue serge spoke first. "Oh, Jimgrim!" he said suddenly in a voice like a tenor bell. "Come in, Hadad," Grim answered, hardly glancing at him. "Make yourself at home."
"Am I to obey you absolutely, not knowing what the " Grim interrupted him: "The proposal's fair. Either you withdraw now and hold your tongue, or come in with us. If you're in I'll tell the details; if not, there's no need." "Wallahi! What a sword-blade you are, Jimgrim!
"As for the administration, Jimgrim, may Allah turn its face cold! But you are another matter. We will come with you." "On my terms?" "Taib." You would have thought that settled it, especially as Ali Baba had already stated that he and his gang were prepared for the journey.
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