'The huntsman urges on the hounds, but unless he is cleverer than they, who eats the meat?
The French regard us as animals, I tell you! Very well; let us live up to the part and hunt like animals, since he who has the name should have the game as well; and when we have done the work and they want booty let them be made aware that animals must eat! We will set our own price on that document.' "'And as for this Yussuf Dakmar,' said another man, 'let him take a back seat unless he is willing to share and share alike with us.

He is not difficult to kill!' "And at that, sahib, Yussuf Dakmar flew into a great rage and called them fools of complicated kinds.
"'Like hounds without a huntsman, ye will overrun the scent!' said he; and he spoke more like a man than any of them, although not as a man to be liked or trusted.

'Who are ye to clap your fat noses on the scent I found and tell me the how and whither of it?
It may be that I can get that letter tonight.

Surely I can get it between this place and Damascus; and no one can do that, for I, and I only, know where it is.
Nor will I tell!' And they answered all together, 'We will make you tell!' "But he said, 'All that ye five fools can do is to interfere.

Easy to kill me, is it?
Well, perhaps.