I found him chuckling.
"That explains a hundred things," he said.
"What does ?" "Why, my likeness to Ali Higg.

It's evidently so.

I've often been kept awake wondering why strangers--Bedouins mostly--would show me such deference until they found out who I really am, and after that would have to be handled without gloves.

It bothered me.

It looked as if I had some natural gift that I couldn't identify, and that got smothered as soon as I put mere brains to work.
"But I see now; they mistook me for the robber, and the reaction when they found out I was some one less like the devil made them act like school-kids who think they can guy the teacher.