victory.
Then to Ali Higg's inexpressible delight Mahommed started to sing
the Akbar song, and they all roared the chorus:

_"Akbar! Akbar! Akbar Ali Higg!"_

The song put everybody in good temper, so that when Jael wrote
out a letter to the bank at Grim's dictation Ali Higg affixed the
seal to it without a murmur and ordered food supplied at once to
all Grim's men; and we had a feast up there on the ledge outside
the cave--in sight of the very spot where Amaziah, King of
Israel, once hurled ten thousand of his enemies into the
gorge below--that, in some respects, was the most enjoyable
I ever shared.

But Grim was not the man to spoil success by lingering in what
might yet turn into a trap. He who sups with the devil should not
sit long at the feast; and I warned you this was a story without
an end to it.

There is the lady Ayisha, and what became of her, and the account
of when and in what way the Lion kept his bargain. Well, have you
heard of those tale-tellers in the East, who sit under a village
tree with the menfolk all around them? They work up to the
climax, and then pause, and pass the begging-bowl for whatever
the tale is worth. I fear those masters of inducement would mock
me as a tyro for having already told too much before the pause!

_The End_

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