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The Lion of Petra

CHAPTER XII
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I had one son, but neither art thou he.

In the name of the All-Knowing, name thyself!" "I am he," said Grim, "who brought Your Honor's wife from El-Kalil." "Oh! And a million curses on the bint! She tried within the hour to poison me.

But for this Indian of thine I were a dead man now.
Stay! Send for her!" He clapped his hands.
"Let her be flung over the cliff.

Go bring her!" But nobody moved to do his bidding, and it dawned on him a second time that he was cornered.

He wasn't a man who took such a discovery mildly.
"Ayisha shall be dealt with at the proper time!" he snarled.


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