[The Innocents Abroad<br> Part 6 of 6 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link book
The 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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