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"By the tombs of our Fathers" . . . Frontispiece

He stretched out his hand to her, but she madeno response

"Look here—and here," he cried, pointing to thebroken sword

"How interesting!" cried the ladies in chorus

THE WHITE PROPHET

FIRST BOOK

THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS

CHAPTER I

It was perhaps the first act of open hostility, and therewas really nothing in the scene or circumstance toprovoke an unfriendly demonstration.

On the broad racing ground of the Khedivial Cluba number of the officers and men of the British Armyquartered in Cairo, assisted by a detachment of thesoldiers of the Army of Egypt, had been giving a shamfight in imitation of the battle of Omdurman, which isunderstood to have been the death-struggle and the endof Mahdism.

The Khedive himself had not been there—he wasaway at Constantinople—and his box had stood emptythe whole afternoon; but a kinsman of the Khedivewith a company of friends had occupied the boxadjoining,

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