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Updated: May 9, 2025
Her shibrayah pitched and rolled like a small boat in a big sea, and whenever a rock leaned out over the narrow trail, or a scraggy old thorn branch swung, it was by a combination of luck and good carpentry that she was saved from being pitched down under the following camel's feet. Whoever made that shibrayah could have built the Ark.
Thereafter I suppose since she considered she had utterly routed and reduced me to submission after the messenger's escape she summoned me to her side, thrusting the shibrayah curtains apart and beckoning with the fingers turned downward, Bedouin fashion.
That was what I should have done. But suddenly Grim turned and pushed the muzzle of his pistol into Ayisha's face as she leaned out of the shibrayah to watch. It caught her under the jawbone, so that she could not see what his finger was doing, and did not dare try to move away. "Now shout!" he ordered her. "Tell 'em your name Wallahi! Yell, or I'll kill you."
I would have bet on three of a kind against him sky-high, even if he had passed the draw. He drew aside the curtain of the shibrayah gingerly, as if he expected a trick mechanism that might explode a bomb in his face. "Mashallah! Where is the woman?" he exclaimed. I found out then that I was right as to the way to play that supposititious poker hand.
Perched on top of the lady Ayisha's beast was a thing they call a shibrayah a sort of tent with a top like an umbrella, resting on the loads slung to the camel's flanks. From inside that she was busy abusing everybody.
She came out from under the curtains of the shibrayah and sat against her camel's rump to face the circle of armed men and instruct them. "Taib!" she said scornfully. "Let this Abbas Mahommed come and take me. I have a knife for his belly in any event. You go on to Ali Higg and say his wife is in the hands of that scum.
Grim chose Mujrim Ali Baba's eldest son a black-bearded, forty-year-old giant two of the younger men, Narayan Singh and me; and with the lady Ayisha's beast in tow with the empty shibrayah set off directly the sun was a span high over the nearest dune. We rode almost straight toward the sun, and in five minutes it appeared how close we were to the village whence danger might be expected.
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