And instead of that making a three-cornered fight of it, it might mean an offensive alliance between Ali Higg and Ali Baba's gang.
"Civil war would be a very mild name for that.

There'd be brains brought to bear on it.

The administration might have to spend twenty or thirty thousand pounds and jail a lot of estimable Arabs.

The thing to do is to stop that kind of thing before it happens." "By corraling Ali Higg, I suppose ?" said I.
"Can't very well do that.

He's a free man.