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The Lion of Petra

CHAPTER V
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It is not unheard of for an Arab sheikh to use Zeiss binoculars, but it might make a stranger suspicious.
The five men came on at a gallop, sending up the dust in clouds like a cruiser's smoke-screen.

They seemed to take it for granted that we were friends, for we were in full view and far outnumbered them, yet they did not check for an instant, and that in itself was a suspicious circumstance.
They came to a halt ten yards away from Ayisha's tent, and stared at her in silence, realizing, apparently for the first time, that they had come within rifle-shot of strangers.

We could see her talking to them, but could not hear what she said.

Perhaps that was as well.

I think that even Grim with his poker face in perfect working order would have been flustered if he had been given time to think.


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