I looked.

I asked.

Perhaps I did not understand all I saw and what was told me." "Is the Lion of Petra with ten-score fighting men able to stand against the British with twenty thousand ?" Grim asked him.
_"Inshallah._ The Lion is brave.

Who knows?
Yet I forgot to speak of the twenty aeroplanes at Ludd, each having ten bombs of a hundred pounds weight that could make short work in an hour or two of ten score men." "Why don't they come ?" snarled Ali Higg.
"They take no delight in slaying the women and children," answered Grim.

"Those black tents below there would be an easy mark to aim at; but who would gain?
It is better that peace were kept." "Throw that Yussuf over the cliff!" commanded Ali Higg.
But once more nobody moved to obey him, and Yussuf had the indecency to smirk, for which Grim cursed him with whiplash sarcasm.
Then Ali Higg put both hands before his face and prayed aloud: "O Allah, Lord of mercies and of wisdom and rebuke, if I am in the hands of enemies and she who was the mother of good plans is taken away from me, have I not, nevertheless, smitten the heretic in thy name and raised thy banner over Petra?
Give me, then, wisdom, that I deal with these men and confound thy enemies.