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Updated: May 11, 2025
She turned to me again. "What does the sheikh of yours call himself?" "Hajji Jimgrim bin Yazid of El-Abdeh." "Jimgrim. Jimgrim. Where have I heard that name?" "The stars have heard it," roared Narayan Singh loud enough for the stars to hear him boast. "He has taken the Lion of Petra's shape. He has taken his name. He has taken his wife. And now he will take his den.
The schoolmaster gossiped thus: People who had visited the village in Petra's girlhood always used to live at her parents' house. There was a room and a loft, and the engineer that planned the big road lived there, and so did the two traveling preachers, to say nothing of the itinerant peddlers who toured the district all the year round.
The old cheerful confusion reigned in the studio. He had a long time to wait there, and then heard through several doors Senora Petra's scolding voice and her husband's angry replies.
It was Sunday; the boy went to his mother's place, and helped her, as usual, to wash the dishes. Then came Petra's daughters, and they spent the whole afternoon quarrelling over a skirt or a petticoat that the younger had bought with the elder sister's money. Manuel, bored by the chatter, invented some excuse and left the house.
I had unslung my rifle and held it in full view resting on my thigh, being minded to look as murderous as possible, but she stole all my thunder by suddenly snatching the rifle away and drawing back its bolt to cock the spring with that almost effortless adroitness that comes of long use. "Who laughs at the Lion of Petra's threat?" she screamed, raising herself in the saddle to survey the crowd.
The old cheerful confusion reigned in the studio. He had a long time to wait there, and then heard through several doors Senora Petra's scolding voice and her husband's angry replies.
On the ground floor of the house, in the part that faced Aguila Street, there was a livery-stable, a carpenter's shop, a tavern and the cobbler's shop owned by Petra's relation. This establishment displayed over the entrance a sign that read: For The Regeneration of Footwear.
When he was able to go out into the street again, he bought, at Petra's suggestion, a gold-plated brooch which he presented to Dona Casiana; she was so pleased with the gift that she told her servant the boy might remain in the house until he was completely recovered. Those days were among the most pleasant that Manuel ever spent in his whole life; the one thing that bothered him was hunger.
I walk so far that I can see the gargoyles on Petra's hotel and suddenly turn off the path into the woods, to sheltered groves and catkins and peace. The air is still; spring will soon be here. And so the days wear on. I am comfortable and feel very much at home; how I should like to stay here! I should pay well for my keep, and make myself useful and popular; I shouldn't harm a fly.
"Nikolai just wants to be a carpenter, but it won't get him anywhere. Still, he can do as he likes." "Well, what else could he do?" A pause. Petra's big mouth is closed. But at length she says: "There's plenty of traffic now and a lot of tourists in the summer, both at Tore Peak and down here on the headland. One time we had two Danes living here; they had traveled on foot.
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