With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
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Henty George Alfred. With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
Preface
Chapter 1: Disinherited
Chapter 2: The Rising In Alexandria
Chapter 3: A Terrible Disaster
Chapter 4: An Appointment
Chapter 5: Southward
Chapter 6: Gregory Volunteers
Chapter 7: To Metemmeh
Chapter 8: Among The Dervishes
Chapter 9: Safely Back
Chapter 10: Afloat
Chapter 11: A Prisoner
Chapter 12: The Battle Of Atbara
Chapter 13: The Final Advance
Chapter 14: Omdurman
Chapter 15: Khartoum
Chapter 16: A Voice From The Dead
Chapter 17: A Fugitive
Chapter 18: A Hakim
Chapter 19: The Last Page
Chapter 20: A Momentous Communication
Chapter 21: Gedareh
Chapter 22: The Crowning Victory
Chapter 23: An Unexpected Discovery
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"Wanted, an active and intelligent young man, for general work, in a commercial house having a branch at Alexandria. It is desirable that he should be able to write a good hand; and, if necessary, to assist in office work. Wages, 2 pounds per week. Personal application to be made at Messieurs Partridge and Company, 453 Leadenhall Street."
This advertisement was read by a man of five or six and twenty, in a small room in the upper story of a house in Lupus Street, Pimlico. He was not the only inmate of the room, for a young woman, apparently not more than eighteen, was sitting there sewing; her work interrupted, occasionally, by a short, hacking cough. Her husband, for this was the relation in which he stood to her, put down the paper carelessly, and then got up.
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And so, Gregory Hartley and his wife went out to Alexandria, and established themselves in three bright rooms, in the upper part of a house that commanded a view of the port, and the sea beyond it. The outlay required for furniture was small, indeed: some matting for the floors, a few cushions for the divans which ran round the rooms, a bed, a few simple cooking utensils, and a small stock of crockery sufficed.
Mr. Ferguson, the manager of the branch, had at first read the letter that Gregory had brought him with some doubt in his mind, as to the wisdom of his principal, in sending out a man who was evidently a gentleman. This feeling, however, soon wore away; and he found him perfectly ready to undertake any work to which he was set.
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