Achmed Abdullah

Alien Souls Achmed Abdullah

Book Excerpte of Afghanistan are loyal in living, loyal also in taking life. But there was my promise to Bibi Halima to keep Ebrahim Asif safe against her husband's claiming. And I kept him safe, quite safe, by Allah, the holder of the balance of right. For using a short cut which I knew, having once had a blood-feud in those very hills, I appeared suddenly in front of Ebrahim Asif, covering him with my rifle. He did not show fight, for no hillman will battle against impossible odds. Doubtless he thought me a robber; and so, obeying my command, he dropped his rifle and his cheray, and he suffered me to bind his hands behind his back with my waistband. But when I spoke to him, when I pronounced the name of Ali-Khan and Bibi Halima, he turned as yellow as a dead man's bones. His knees shook. The fear of death came into his eyes, and also a great cunning; for these Moustaffa-Khel are gray wolves among wolves."Walk ahead of me, son of Shaitan and of a shejackal," I said, gently rubbing his