The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition
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Henty George Alfred. The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. MIXED!
CHAPTER II. AT CHELTENHAM
CHAPTER III. GONE
CHAPTER IV. BACK AT SCHOOL
CHAPTER V. ENLISTED
CHAPTER VI. EGYPT
CHAPTER VII. EL-TEB
CHAPTER VIII. TAMANIEB
CHAPTER IX. THE CAMEL CORPS
CHAPTER X. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
CHAPTER XI. ABU KLEA
CHAPTER XII. METEMMEH
CHAPTER XIII. ABU KRU
CHAPTER XIV. A SLAVE
CHAPTER XV. BAD NEWS
CHAPTER XVI. IN DISGUISE
CHAPTER XVII. A RUNAWAY SLAVE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ZAREBA
CHAPTER XIX. A LONG SEARCH
CHAPTER XX. FOUND!
CHAPTER XXI. HOME!
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In a room in the married non-commissioned officers' quarters in the cantonments at Agra, a young woman was sitting looking thoughtfully at two infants, who lay sleeping together on the outside of a bed with a shawl thrown lightly over them. Jane Humphreys had been married about a year. She was the daughter of the regimental sergeant-major, and had been a spoilt child. She was good looking, and had, so the wives and daughters of the other non-commissioned officers said, laid herself out to catch one of the young officers of the regiment, and was bitterly disappointed at the failure of her efforts.
The report may have been untrue, for Jane Farran was by no means popular with the other women, taking far too much upon herself, as they considered, upon the strength of her father's rank, and giving herself airs as if she were better than those around her. There were girls in the regiment just as good looking as she was without any of her airs and tempers. Why should she set herself up above the rest?
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"How dare you say so!" she exclaimed making a step forward as if she would strike him.
"I will tell you why I say so. Because I went to the drawer this morning before going to parade, and I saw some of Mrs. Clinton's baby's night-gowns in it. Yes, I see they are all in the wash-tub now; but they were there this morning, and when I heard you say you had put the child into one of our baby's night-gowns because it had no clean ones of its own, I knew that you were lying, and that you had done this on purpose."
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