Who?
El Kaimakam Trench?
No." He mentioned the names of other white captives in Omdurman, and to each name the Arab's eyes answered "No." "It was Effendi Feversham, then ?" he said, and the eyes assented as clearly as though the lips had spoken.
But this was all the information which Calder could secure.

"I too am pledged to help Effendi Feversham," he said, but in vain.

The Arab could not speak, he could not so much as tell his name, and his companions would not.

Whatever those two men knew or suspected, they had no mind to meddle in the matter themselves, and they clung consistently to a story which absolved them from responsibility.

Kinsmen of theirs in Korosko, hearing that they were travelling to Assouan, had asked them to take charge of the wounded man, who was a stranger to them, and they had consented.