He is a friend of Feisul." "On whose word ?" "Mine," Grim answered.
Sidi bin Tagim nodded.

He seemed willing to take Grim's word for anything.
"Why did you say a Jew stabbed you ?" Grim asked suddenly.
"So that they might hang a Jew or two.

Wallah! Are the Jews not at the bottom of all trouble?
If a Greek should kill a Maltese it would be a Jew who planned it! May the curse of Allah change their faces and the fire of Eblis consume them!" "Did you see the man who stabbed you ?" "Yes." And was he a Jew ?" "Jimgrim, you know better than to ask that! A Jew always hires another to do the killing.

He who struck me was a hireling, who shall die by my hand, as Allah is my witness.

But may Allah do more to me and bring me down into the dust unburied unless I make ten Jews pay for this!" "Any one Jew in particular ?" Grim asked, and the man in bed closed up like a clam that has been touched.
He was a strange-looking fellow--rather like one of those lean Spaniards whom Goya used to paint, with a scant beard turning grey, and hollow cheeks.