[The Innocents Abroad Part 6 of 6 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe Innocents Abroad Part 6 of 6 CHAPTER LV 14/46
It makes my blood run cold to think of it. Another was going to scalp such Bedouins as fell to his share, and take his bald-headed sons of the desert home with him alive for trophies. But the wild-eyed pilgrim rhapsodist was silent.
His orbs gleamed with a deadly light, but his lips moved not.
Anxiety grew, and he was questioned.
If he had got a Bedouin, what would he have done with him -- shot him? He smiled a smile of grim contempt and shook his head. Would he have stabbed him? Another shake.
Would he have quartered him -- flayed him? More shakes.
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