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With Kitchener in the Soudan

CHAPTER 11: A Prisoner
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His influence will be restored, and your life will be safe.
"We are to be removed to the farther side of the wood, when the fighting begins; and there all the women are to be gathered, and wait, till the infidels are utterly destroyed.
"If your people come tomorrow morning, you may be saved.

Otherwise I fear the worst." "I thank you for what you have done for me," replied Gregory, "and whatever comes of it, be sure that I shall feel grateful to you, and shall not blame you for not having been able to do what was impossible.
I hope my friends may come tomorrow, for, whatever my fate may be, anything is better than uncertainty." "May Allah protect you!" the woman said, with a sob; "and go now.

I hear Mahmud calling me.".


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