Programmatically detect a current "highlight" setting?

I'm writing a plug-in and want to temporarily hide the cursor.

It would be really neat if I could do "highlight Cursor NONE" and
later restore the highlight setting to whatever it was before.

But I am not sure how to capture the old setting. Evidently "highlight
Cursor" _echoes_ the current setting, but doesn't actually return
anything that I could capture programmatically.

Anything I can do?

Cheers,
Wincent

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