Part 8 (1/2)
”As I see it, any tribe out there has asleader as you and I have to elect a president,” said Grim
”I don't suppose they did elect hiot himself elected somehow We've no veto I don't hold with murder; it sets a bad example and turns loose a horde of individual trouble-ht be easy to have hiht be Murder has always been the solution of politics in the Old World right down to date; and look where they're at in consequence!”
”You ested
”What's your plan?”
”They say I look a bit like Ali Higg”
”But what then? Haven't you a plan--nothing you mean to try first?”
”Oh yes _Chercher la femme”_
”So there's a wo's no born statesman His brains live in a black tent, and he keeps 'eht in Jerusales”
”What is she--a Turk? I've heard some of them are educated nowadays”
”No And she never was a Turk She was born in Bulgaria of Greco-Rusoblgar parents, educated at Roberts College and Columbia University, New York, married to a drurounds I don't know--divorced hih, I believe caypt-- when he was prisoner of war down there--he was fighting for the Turks at one time--and helped him to escape
”I've never set eyes on her, but they say she's a rare good-looker and has er than ns on the throne of Mesopota to let the Arabs choose their own king”
”Sure And as soon as she sees that Ali Higg's pretensions don't aive ten piastres for that gentle on her, they tell me”
”So we're out to play chess with a white woman Why didn't you tell me this before?”
”What's your hurry?” asked Grim ”If you find out too s I'll introduce you to the lady if we ever reach Petra right side up Now let's eat, and get amarch! Come”
CHAPTER IV
”Go and Ask the Kites, then, At Dat Rasi”
So far everything worked out strictly according to plan We had hardly finished a hurried e camels provided by old Rafiki; and they were not in the least pleased with their e camel is as different from a beast trained to carry a rider as an up-to-date limousine is from a Chinese one-wheel barrow Perched on top of the lady Ayisha's beast was a thing they call a _shi+brayah_--a sort of tent with a top like an u to the ca everybody
There was only one good ca Bishareen, a shade or two lighter in color than the rest, ridden by a wiry, mean rascal with a very black face
He seemed anxious not to assert himself, for he kept his mount well away in the shadows, andpitch-dark Griave the order to be off Two or threecaht the beast assigned to _ his about Arabs and their ways of assessing hue is for use
”Do youto _nakh_ in the cae he pulled the beast's head down