Jimgrim and Allah's Peace by Talbot Mundy

"You may now be unsafe and an outlaw and enjoy yourself!"

The man who entered was a short, middle-aged Jew of the type that writes political reviews for magazines--black morning coat, straw hat, gold pince-nez--a neatly trimmed dark beard beginning to turn gray from intense mental emotion--nearly bald--a manner of conceding the conventions rather than argue the point, without admitting any necessity for them--a thin-lipped smile that apologized for smiling in a world so serious and bitter. He wore a U.S.A. ten-dollar gold piece on his watch chain, by way of establishing his nationality.