Bid him, as he values life,' she said, `call in those forty men whom he would send to punish the Beni Aroun people.

Tell him I am a prisoner, but those forty are enough to turn the tables until Ibrahim ben Ah can come.

A camel must leave in a hurry for Ibrahim ben Ah at the oasis, and bring him and all the men back to straighten this affair.' "She promised them money and promotion for success, and sure death for failure!" "Good!" said Grim, turning to me.

"You see?
It always pays to stage a close-up in a game like this.

We've caught our friend Ali Higg between soup and fish." "Get in quick, then, and kidnap him," I urged.
"Man alive," he answered, "we've no kind of right to do that.
Bring her down," he told Narayan Singh, "and then have Mujrim tie those four men of Ayisha's so they've no chance to escape." Jael Higg came down in a livid passion--altogether too near home to enjoy taking secondhand orders from an Indian in the dark.