If in great wrath because I mixed the potion in his drink he shall have me slain, nevertheless the Lion will be whole again; and who am I compared to him ?' So said the lady Ayisha." I know Grim would have given a hundred dollars for leave to laugh then right out in meeting; but he kept a straight face, and he had so contrived to make Jael Higg afraid of him that though she looked scandalized she held her tongue.

And Narayan Singh, as I said, supported me.
"These words are true, O Lion of Petra," he boomed out.

"I heard the lady Ayisha speak, and it was I who put the little vial in her hands.

By the beard of the Prophet I swear the words are true." But as he is a Sikh, and therefore believes that the prophet of El-Islam was a liar and impostor, with a beard as fit to be dishonored as his fiery creed, perhaps his perjury was scarcely technical.

Anyhow, I am not the recording angel.