He had taken timeto dress even when he heard the pandemonium in the streets. They are starving and they have been driven to this. It was not necessary to speak of the consequences for the men if thecamels failed. The gun shuddered and roared.
He led her in through the main door, and the guards within deferred tohim respectfully. They wereheading now directly for Gallabat, the last Dervish stronghold beforethe border. Allah is mighty, he said. In the months since the beginning of thesiege she had been exposed to death in many of its most hideous forms,but now she gagged as she looked at her friend's body.
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