Early the next morning, however, we saw a white rag waving on the bank, and then a black entered the water and swam out towards us.

I sent the boat to meet him, and when he came on board I found that he was your man, and the mystery was explained.

I fancy I used some strong language; for I never before heard of a man being so hare-brained as to spring overboard, in the middle of a battle, and pick up a woman, without saying a word to anyone of what he was doing, and that with the boat still steaming ahead.

Of course, your man told us that it was Mahmud's wife you had saved, and that she had taken you under her protection; but I did not expect that, among those fanatics, your life would be spared.
"Now, tell us all about your adventures, and how you got down here just in time to see our fellows enter, in triumph.

I suppose you managed to give them the slip, somehow ?" Gregory then told his story.