Your husband's position could not possibly be as hopeless as mine was." "When I saw you standing on that rock up yonder, I put it down to delirium," said the Colonel.

"If the ladies had not seen you, I should never have ventured to believe it." "I am afraid that I behaved very badly.

Captain Archer says that I nearly spoiled all their plans, and that I deserved to be tried by a drumhead court-martial and shot.

The fact is that, when I heard the Arabs beneath me, I forgot myself in my anxiety to know if any of you were left." "I wonder that you were not shot without any drumhead court-martial," said the Colonel.

"But how in the world did you get here ?" "The Halfa people were close upon our track at the time when I was abandoned, and they picked me up in the desert.