"Tippy Tilly--Bimbashi Mormer--Boum!" "By Jove, I've got it!" cried Belmont.

"He's trying to speak English.
Tippy Tilly is as near as he can get to Egyptian Artillery.

He has served in the Egyptian Artillery under Bimbashi Mortimer.

He was taken prisoner when Hicks Pasha was destroyed, and had to turn Dervish to save his skin.

How's that ?" The Colonel said a few words of Arabic and received a reply, but two of the Arabs closed up, and the negro quickened his pace and left them.
"You are quite right," said the Colonel.