The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil

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The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil (1922)
by Talbot Mundy
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CONTENTS (not listed in original)
  • Chapter I
  • “Get the vote an’ everything.”
  • Chapter II
  • “These are two good boys.”
  • Chapter III
  • “But we be honest men!”
  • Chapter IV
  • “I feel like Pontius Pilate!”
  • Chapter V
  • “The mummery they call the fire-gift.”
  • Chapter VI
  • “Fortune favors the man who favors fortune.”
  • Chapter VII
  • “Your friends, Jimgrim, don’t forget it!”
  • Chapter VIII
  • “Carry on, boys!”
  • Chapter IX
  • “I am Rabbi, not governor!”
  • Chapter X
  • “We must score the last trick with the deuce of spades!”
  • Chapter XI
  • “Allahu akbar! La illahah il-allah!”
  • Chapter XII
  • “Let’s have supper now and drink to them seventeen thieves!”

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


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