Robert W. Lebling

[_] One night, five men from Nuweiba were travelling past the mountain, and one of them fell behind, and was separated from his companions. As the man _ whom we will call Ahmed _ wandered in the darkness, wondering where his friends had gone, a beautiful woman suddenly appeared out of the night and blocked his path. She gave him a choice: __ex, or be eaten!_ It was not a difficult decision. As the Bedouins put it, __he man did what a man has to do._ [_]