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The Lion of Petra

CHAPTER XIII
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"The El-Maan men saw me and believed I was the Lion of Petra.

I forbade the looting of the train, and Your Honor's wife Ayisha went to El-Maan to enforce obedience by her presence.
"Later they saw me start for Petra when the train had passed; and now they will learn that Ibrahim ben Ah with seven score men is bivouacking in the desert.

The world is round, O Ali Higg, so that where in one place it seems dark in another they say the sun is rising." "In Allah's name, who art thou ?" asked the Lion.
"James Schuyler Grim.

Men call me Jimgrim." "Allah! _Wallahi haida fasl!_* Not he who fought under Lawrence against the Turks?
_Wallah!_ I fought on the other side, but we all feared Lawrence and admired him so that not a man would try to capture him, although Djemal Pasha put a great price on his head.

And you were known far and wide as his man! There was a price on your head too--dead or alive--five thousand pounds Turkish--well I remember it.


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