"I would know thine evil face with the meat stripped off it! Nevertheless, thou and I are brothers and this is my train.

So let me go!" Grim watched Ayisha jump out of the caboose with my rifle in her hand, and turn to take aim at the open door, through which the conductor's voice came croaking blasphemy.
"All right," he said.

"Since thou and I are brothers, go thy way! _Allah ysallmak!"_ The driver did not wait for a second hint, but shoved the lever over so hard that the wheels spun and the whole train came within an ace of bucking off the track.

And before the caboose had passed us Ayisha was alongside Grim abusing him for not having broken the locks off the steel freight-cars.
"I am a robber's wife!" she said, stamping her foot indignantly.
"What sort of robber are you that let such loot pass free ?" "Shall I rob my mother's son ?" Grim asked her.

"God forbid!" Then he turned to me, wondering.
"Can you beat it ?" he said..