For Fortune and Glory

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Lewis Hough. For Fortune and Glory

For Fortune and Glory

Table of Contents

Chapter One

A Mysterious Relative

Chapter Two

Mr. Richard Burke visits his Lawyer

Chapter Three

From Gay To Grave

Chapter Four

“Ways that are Dark and Tricks that are Vain.”

Chapter Five

In Passing

Chapter Six

In Farnham Park

Chapter Seven

A Very Long Paper-Chase

Chapter Eight

Kavanagh’s Choice

Chapter Nine

The Army of Hicks Pasha

Chapter Ten

Sent out Scouting

Chapter Eleven

A Glimpse at a Tragedy

Chapter Twelve

Abdul Achmet

Chapter Thirteen

An Unexpected Meeting

Chapter Fourteen

Trinkitat

Chapter Fifteen

El Teb

Chapter Sixteen

Touch and Go!

Chapter Seventeen

A Search

Chapter Eighteen

Against the Stream

Chapter Nineteen

Across the Loop

Chapter Twenty

Bir-Hump

Chapter Twenty One

The Convoy

Chapter Twenty Two

Sword versus Bayonet

Chapter Twenty Three

In the Ranks of the Enemy

Chapter Twenty Four

At Sheen

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Lewis Hough

A Story of the Soudan War

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Mr. Burke returned home and wrote to his sister, and to Stephen Philipson, telling them what he had done. He did not write about it to Reginald Kavanagh, not thinking it necessary to take from him any inducement to exert himself, for though he was a good-enough lad in most respects, he certainly was not studious. He was also accused by his schoolfellows of what they called “putting on a good deal of swagger,” a weakness not likely to be improved by the knowledge of his godfather’s kind intentions towards him.

So that altogether Mr. Richard Burke was, perhaps, judicious.

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