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sat together in the veran
da at Shepheards Hotel
Cairo lay beneath and
around us Cairo filthy multi colored
and malodorous but always pictur
esque Suddenly an Arab boy came
around the corner and with a salaam
of the deepest handed some mail to
Grimshaw Then he squatted down
on the veranda boards with his great
black eyes fixed on my companions
face waiting for further orders
Your boy Captain I asked
Yes replied Grimshaw but a good
ileal more than that I should be buried
in the Soudan now if it were not for
Ibrahim yonder
Tell me about it please I asked
rather eagerly for this small Arab in
the clear white tunic and brilliant tur
ban interested me mightily
Grimshaw settled himself back In the
bungalow chair and began
You know of course he said that
I was in Khartoum with Gordon I
did not regularly belong to the Gener
als forces but I had volunteered as
one of his aides-de-camp Well we
were shut up in that death trap City of
Khartoum surrounded on every side
by the forces of the Mahdi myriads of
fanatical Soudanese Arabs following
that high priest of bloodshed We En
glish were but a mere handful of men
the auxiliary forces were wretchedly
small Our only hope was aid from
Egypt and as the whole world knows
that never came Poor Gordon was al
lowed to fall a victim to the Mahdis
sword and most of the garrison were
slain With the exception of Slatin
Bey who became a Mussulman I think
I was the only European wTho got out
of the doomed city with his life That
I did so was due to Ibrahim
Here the Arab boy hearing his name
mentioned looked up and smiled
showing a row of teeth exceptionally
even and white
A few days after we entered Khar
toum continued Grimshaw I was
patroling tho town under Gen Gordons
order when we came across a great
rabble of boys hallooing and shouting
at a deafeniag rate I sent an Egyp
tian soldier to discover the cause and
he reported that the young
it is so that Private Atkins of her
Majestys troops denominates the Sou
danese were having fun with one of
their number I was then as now in
tensely interested in native manners
and customs Halting my men I en
tered the boisterous cordon of boys to
determine the reason of their tumult
The little rascals were teasing one
of their number Teasing indeed in
this case is too mild a word They
were beating and stoning the lad who
lay bruised and half blinded in the gut
ter Hs turban was off and his al
ready scant clothing had been torn to
shreds I sprang into the middle of the
mob and demanded the cause of such
brutal treatment At first they affect
ed not to understand my Arabic and
went on beating their victim but when
I had soundly cuffed one or two and
summoned my interpreter to my aid
T succeeded in making them answer
He is the renegades son said a
ringleader Hassan the renegades
son Stone him in the name of the
prophet
Then I understood The poor boys
father had taken service with Gordon
leaving his offspring to suffer all the
cruelties which the Khartoum chil
dren egged on by their elders were
sure to inflict upon him I lost no time
in calling up a few men and sending
that pack of youthful fanatics to the
light about They went away vowing
dire vengeance on the renegades
brat and I raised my protege from the
dust He had fainted from pain and
loss of blood but one of our surgeons
soon brought him to When he opened
his eyes and saw me he smiled like a
little coffee colored angel and wanted
there and then to give me his best
salaam Of course I made him lie down
again but he blurted out his gratitude
for preservation so vigorously that he
came near fainting again
Next day his father Hassan one of
Gordons servants came to see him
The two had a long talk nd finally
Hassan announced that for his sons
sake he had decided to leave the Gen
eral and go back to his cobblers stall
in the bazaar Ibrahim for the lad
whom I had helped to rescue was the
same one now sitting before you
soon recovered thanks to his native
tough constitution He left my hut
absolutely refusing to touch any of
the money which I offered him
Trotector of the poor he said in
his quaint grandiloquent Eastern way
you have saved your servants life
Did not the mouse once repay the lion
that had been his benefactor Lo
I am the mouse effendi and you are
the lion Perhaps some day I may re
pay you Salaam friend Then he
backed out of my hut and I saw him
not for many days
II
One evening while hurrying through
the bazaar on my way to Gen Gordons
quarters a boy sprang out of a cob
blers stall and handed me a tiny bun
dleslipping away into the darkness
before I had time to do more than rec
ognize him as Ibrahim son of Hassan
I carried the bundle to the General
and together we undid its fastenings
Have you ever deciphered an Oriental
object letter I mean a letter which
Is not written upon paper but of which
the sense is conveyed by objects flow
ps and the like The bundle handed
me by Ibrahim was just such a commu
nication It contained a queer collec
tion of articles They were A piece
of broken knife blade a scrap of green
cJoth two Mowers marigolds I think
with only the heads remaining a brick
from the walls and lastly an iron af
fair which I at once recognized as the
point of one of those sticks with which
camels are urged onward
Gen Gordon lost no time in unrav
eling the mystery of this missive The
green cloth he said means the Mahdi
because his sacred flag is green The
knife blade stands for a sword and tne
decapitated flower means that our
heads are going to be cut off The
brick I take it hints of treachery in
side the walls The camel spike ad
vises you to fly from Khartoum imme
diately Where did you get this
When I told him the source of my
information he was inclined to pooh
pooh Ibrahims letter It is a boys fear
and fancy he said We shall be re
lieved in a few weeks
But the Mahdis men formed an
impenetrable circle around the town
a circle that grew narrower and nar
rower Day after day we scanned the
desert horizon for some sign of the ex
pected relief but without avail Day
after tay the impression grew stronger
upon each and all of us that we were
doomed
During an early morning walk Ibra
him accosted me as suddenly as he had
done before Fly effendi he whisper
ed The city is betrayed My father
and other Mussulmans have decided to
let the Mahdi within the gates Dis
guise yourself and fly before it is too
late
I shook my head for duty kept me
in Khartoum and Ibrahim retreated
with tears in those big honest eyes of
his
III
The very next night his warning
was fulfilled It would be idle my
friend to tell you over again all the
horrors of the capture or rather be
trayal of Khartoum The Mahdis sol
diers were like fiends incarnate Spent
with fatigue and slender fare we could
not stand before them Gordon poor
fellow was slain and a remnant of us
was driven fighting for life from hut
to hut across the city Finally with
empty revolver and broken sword I
found myself in the stairway of a rude
minaret waiting for the death which I
felt would be inevitable It is all very
well to meet death boldly on the field
of battle with comrades and friends
around one but to sit down in a dark
stairway and count the minutes until
its coming might make the bravest man
in the world feel uncomfortable All
around I heard the hideous sounds of
slaughter and watched through a tiny
loop hole in the wall the red flames
shooting across the sky for it was mid
night and a starless midnight to boot
A sick feeling stole over me To re
main cooped up thus seemed intolera
ble I had just resolved to rush into
the thick of the Soudanese and sell my
life as dearly as possible when a foot
fall on the stairs below arrested me
It was the sound of a naked foot
and as I peered every sense on the
alert into the half light by the minaret
doorway I vaguely distinguished a
dark form and two shining eyes Was
it one of the Mahdis in search of hu
man prey I gripped my broken sword
tighter and prepared for action
Effendi whispered a voice is it
you protector of the poor
The voiee was that ol Ibrahim son
of Hassan My heart gav a leap for
gladness and I answered him that it
was indeed myself
It is good he exclaimed My
lord I have come to save you Hasten
down and don these garments which I
have brought you They belong to the
old blind priest who lodged with my
father He died last night but nobody
knows of it yet You can pass as the
old priest and escape Make haste sa
hib make haste
I saw the chance and seized it Be
fore you could have repeated the pro
verbial Jack Robinson many tfmes I
had pulled those baggy Mohammedan
clothes over my soiled and bloodstained
uniform A turban took the place of
my khaki helmet and around my face
I draped the white hood which the
Soudanese Arabs wear Then before
I could protest Ibrahim coolly seized a
handful of mud and liberally daubed
my face
The sahib is too white he explain
ed The old blind priest was always
black and dirty so kick off your boots
sahib and let me daub your feet Off
went my boots and in a minute or two
my legs from the knee down were as
brown and as dirty as they well mrght
be
You are all right now effendi
said Ibrahim let us make for the Cairo
gate
With all my heart I thanked the boy
but he would listen to no thanks You
saved my life Ill save yours he said
Remember effendi the mouse and the
lion Let us hasten to the gate
But you are not coming
gan when my protest wasT interrupted
by a trpop of black Mahdists surging
into the little bystreet where we stood
Never shall I forget the sight they pre
sented in the false light of the burning
city with their huge piles of hair
their ferocious faces and their spears
and scimeters a drip with blood I had
given myself over for lost when Ibra
him gripping my hand led me onward J
calling in sing song tones Room for
the blind priest Room for Amed son
of Ali the soothsayer The light of
Allah is upon the blind priest
Taking the hint 1 plucked up cour
age enough to shout the war cry of the
Mahdi Tne fuzzj wuzzies entirely
deceived joined in my cry Bide your
time holy father said one of them
well give you plenty of Christian heads
later on Then they left us
whooping like demons down the street
but Ibrahim plucked at my sleeve and
mechanically I followed him Many
tiinoc we met parties of the Mahdists
but in the darkness our ruse succeeded
beautifullj and we reached Cairo gate
in safety
Around the gate despite the con
fusion a strong guard had been posted
In the open space without many scores
of camels wrere sprawling
A camel for the Mahdis messen
ger cried Ibrahim in his shrill voice
Ho brothers A camel for tho blind
soothsayer Amed son of Ali who bears
the Mahdis defiance across the desert
A dozen dusky warriors surrounded
us and as many awkward camels were
prodded to their feet One of these un
gainly beasts was made to kneel while
Ibrahim made a great show of helping
the supposed blind priest to a seat upon
his back
Just then a tall fuzzy wuzzy clear
ly an officer rushed forward Who is
this he demanded Where does this
man go The orders are that no man
shall leave the gates before daybreak
My heart sank but fortunately for
us the natural superstition of the Arab
came to ouraid Have a care cried
one of the soldiers It is a blind priest
a soothsayer He may curse you
The officer stepped back involuntar
ily eying me with fear Give us your
blessing holy father cried a dozen on
lookers
Here was a new predicament I
could not remember enough Arabic at
the moment to give the desired blessing
but a whisper from Ibrahim recalled to
my mind a simple form of words
which eked out by discreet mumbling
on my part and the loud responses of
the boy suited the Arabs well enough
They prostrated themselves the offi
cer with the rest amid a great cry of
Allah Ackbar Then Ibrahim smote
our camel soundly and away we went
through the outposts speeding fast
from the gory City of Khartoum
IV
The perils and adventures of the
journey were too numerous to be told
at one sitting but it was nearly a
month after that awful night that our
camel limped into Cairo carrying on
hs back two emaciated fugitives who
had once been an officer of the line and
an Arab boy
Ibrahim has been all around the
world with me since and will probably
continue to be my comrade until one of
us twain departs this life forever eh
Ibrahim old friend
The Arab lad smiled and spread out
his hands My fate is thine effendi
he said you saved my life
On that score Ibrahim answered
Capt Grimshaw I think we are quits
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