"Few women will refuse to follow a Pathan when honored by his admiration," he boomed.
I could not see her face then, because she was staring at
Narayan Singh.
"Do you realize whose wife you are tampering with?" she asked him.
"Hah! Where I come from a man must guard his women if he hopes to keep them."
"Where you are going to, such a man as you will find his own life hard enough to keep," she retorted.
"Bismillah! I have kept it thus far," said Narayan Singh.
She turned to me again.
"What does the sheikh of yours call himself?"
"Hajji Jimgrim bin Yazid of El-Abdeh."
"Jimgrim. Jimgrim. Where have I heard that name?"