[Jimgrim and Allah’s Peace by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookJimgrim and Allah’s Peace CHAPTER Eleven 14/25
But what if we--you and I, that is to say--between us extract the best plum from the pudding before those miscalled statesmen sign the mandate--eh? It can be done! It can be done!" Grim chuckled: "I suppose you already see a picture of you and me with an ancient tomb in our trunks--say a few tons of the more artistic parts--beating it for the frontier and hawking the stuff afterward to second-hand furniture dealers? Pour me another whiskey, prof, and then we'll go steal the Mosque of Omar!" "Ach! You laugh at me--you jest--you mock--you sneer.
But I know what I propose.
Do you know what will be found in that Tomb of the Kings of Judah when we discover it ?" "Bones.
Dry bones.
A few gold ornaments perhaps.
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