Five days' march from here to Petra and how many deserts and tribes between ?" "So much the easier to keep the loot when we have won it!" answered Ali Baba.
"There's going to be no loot!" said Grim.
"Allah!" "Would you rather have me send back to Jerusalem for regular police ?" "Nay, Jimgrim! That would be the end of you, for those police would bungle everything.

You need clever fellows with you if you go to sup with Ali Higg." "Well?
Are you coming ?" _"Taib._ We are ready.

But--" "On my terms!" "But the pay is nothing!" "So is my pay nothing! This man"-- he pointed to me--"gets no pay at all.

Narayan Singh, the Sikh, gets less pay than a policeman." "Then what is the profit ?" "For you?
The honor of keeping your word.

The privilege of making fair return for past immunity.