[The Lion of Petra by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lion of Petra CHAPTER X 28/39
You look enough like him to make it possible to substitute you with care.
Go ahead and send your _hakim."_ Grim smiled with perfect good humor, but a blind man could not have mistaken his refusal. "Oh, you're all hypocrites, you men--Americans, English, French--you're all alike; glad to see a man die, if he's a nuisance, but afraid to admit you'd a hand in it.
But you needn't fear.
You can send your _hakim_ uninstructed.
He's an Indian, isn't he? Well, Ali Higg is sure to insult him to the very marrow of his bones, and you can safely leave Indian revengefulness to do the rest." Grim shook his head. "He'd be too afraid he might meet me some day.
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