Then Ayisha fell back on insolence and walked past Jael deliberately, with dark eyes flashing and a thin smile on her lips.
"So you are now a Pathan's light o' love ?" Jael sneered in Arabic.
At that Ayisha turned again and faced her.
"Who speaks?
She whom the Lion could not trust to go to Hebron?
_Um Kulsum!"_* -- ---------- * Um Kulsum was a lady in Arabic legend whose immoralities have made her name a byword.
-- ---------- Ayisha passed on with a scornful shoulder movement.

Narayan Singh grinned with malicious amusement.

And I was just in time to catch two of the men again attacking my medicine-chest.

Instead of trying to open it they were dragging it along the ground, and they were as pleased with themselves as two small dogs caught burying a boot.
"She has given us money!" "Who has ?" "The lady Ayisha.

We are to bring her this, and she will take poison from it and put it in the other woman's food! So Jimgrim will be rid of her, and all will be well!" I got Narayan Singh to keep his eye on the chest, and walked up to where Grim was going through the form of Moslem prayer, facing Mecca on his mat on the low hilltop.