De Crespigny followed them in to learn the news.
"Know anything about old Rafiki, the wool-merchant ?" Grim asked.
"Steady-going old party," said de Crespigny.

"Says his prayers, cheats his customers, keeps the curfew law, and runs a three-wife establishment, I believe, in three parts of town, all according to the Book.

Why, have you run foul of him ?" "He has offered me ten thousand piastres to poison Ali Higg" "Show me the money!" laughed de Crespigny.
"He was hardly as previous as that.

His head wife bribed these kids to bring me to the house, and the old boy met me in the wool-store.

Said he'd been told I was going to Petra.
"First suggestion he made was that I should take my time on the road and waylay a caravan that's sure to follow.