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Is that clear?" "Clear? A camel in the dark could understand it! But listen, Jimgrim." The venerable sire of rogues went and sat crosslegged on the window-seat, evidently meaning to debate the point. If an Arab loves one thing more than a standing argument it is that same thing sitting down. "We go against Ali Higg. That is no light matter.
Half of the men who advise you to go to the front will fight like lions against a net, and the other half will sell you to the French! Your fifty thousand men will melt like butter in the sun and your Arab cause will be left without a leader!" Feisul pondered that for about a minute, leaning back and watching Grim's face. "We held a council of war, Jimgrim," he said at last.
The Sikh said nothing, but Ali Baba was conscious of the weight that years should give to his opinion, as well as justly proud of his night's work, and not at all disposed to sit in silence. "Now the right course, Jimgrim, is to make a great circuit and carry these two women back across the British border," he began at once.
"The Emir Feisul is astonished, Jimgrim, that Colonel Lawrence and you should visit Damascus without claiming his hospitality. We have two autos waiting to take you to the palace." Well, the luggage didn't amount to much; Narayan Singh brought that down in a jiffy; and when I went to settle with the hotel-keeper one of the Syrian officers interfered.
Presently Grim laughed again, and looked at the line of fifteen other sons and grandsons, all squatting in the shadow of the wall watching us. "Which is the chief Lothario?" he asked; only he used a much more expressive word than that, because the East is frank where the West deals in innuendo, and vice versa. "They are all grown men," said Ali Baba. "How did you know that, Jimgrim?"
You very often can't sleep then because of the very heat that makes you drowsy; but the glare has been so trying to your eyes that you yearn to shut them, and inertia sits on your spine and shoulders like a load of lead. "Thou and I must watch that woman, sahib," said Narayan Singh. "Our Jimgrim will make use of her; but how shall he do that if her heart changes?
"Tell me," she went on, "is that Sheikh Jimgrim of yours mad, or am I mad?" "If you ask my opinion, as a hakim," I answered, "you were mad to sit your camel alone, with only two men, within reach of our Jimgrim." "What does he think he will do with me at Petra?" "He thinks silently," said I.
We start tonight." "Tomorrow will be a better moon, Jimgrim." "We want a full moon when we get to Petra. We start tonight. Come along; show me the camels." "It is hot now. There is a bad stink in the stables. Better see them when it gets cooler." "I'm going now. Are you coming with me?" "Taib. I will show them to you. They are good ones. They will make you proud.
Out of ten Frenchmen in Syria, five believe that Lawrence is with Feisul and if they can catch him he will get short shrift. But, oh, Jimgrim oh, if it were true! Wallahi!" Grim didn't answer, but I saw him look long at Jeremy, and then for about thirty seconds steadily at Mabel Ticknor.
Grim astonished us all by admitting it at once. The name Jimgrim sounds enough like Arabic to pass muster; and we wondered why he should have gone to all that trouble to disguise himself, only to confess his real name when there seemed no need. Even Ali Baba left off cursing the Sikh under his breath. "I am glad to know that," she said. "It will save my wasting words.
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