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But even if he escaped unhurt, and the suspicions of his comrades were allayed, what would the Khedive do? The Khedive had recognised him, and had done nothing so far. Yet Ismail, the chief Mussulman in Egypt, should have thrown him like a rat to the terriers!
Rionga passed his hours in native excesses, in the joy of receiving the titular rank of Vakil to the Khedive. Anfina alienated Gordon's friendly feeling by suggesting the wholesale assassination of Kaba Rega's officers and followers when they came on a mission to his camp.
We can imagine how Gordon's blood must have boiled with indignation at such gross miscarriages of justice; and during the whole time he served the Khedive, his object was to do away with this kind of tyranny. Often his journeys from place to place were marked by signs of fallen greatness, as he would not tolerate tyranny.
Hilliard had received a pension from the Egyptian government, up to the date of her death, as his widow; he having fallen in the service of the Khedive. Gregory looked up his old nurse, whom he found comfortable and happy. She also made an affidavit, to the effect that she had entered the service of Mrs.
"The Khedive said, after some circumlocution, 'Was I not too friendly with Johannis? In fact, the general report in Cairo was that I was going in for being Sultan; but it would not suit our family. I hope to finish off Johannis soon, and then to come home."
"Well, the Khedive put your six and fourteen others in prison for treason or something it doesn't matter much here what it is. His game is to squeeze Kingsley's gold orange dry, if he can." A light broke over her face. "Ah, now I see," she said, and her face flushed deeply with anger and indignation.
Meanwhile, Shelek Pasha talked of the school, of the donkey-market, the monopoly of which the Khedive had granted David; and of the new prosperous era opening up in Egypt, due to the cotton David had introduced as an experiment. David's heart waxed proud within him that he had walked out of Framley to the regeneration of a country.
The failure of Congress to make appropriation for our representation at the autonomous court of the Khedive has proved a serious embarrassment in our intercourse with Egypt; and in view of the necessary intimacy of diplomatic relationship due to the participation of this Government as one of the treaty powers in all matters of administration there affecting the rights of foreigners, I advise the restoration of the agency and consulate-general at Cairo on its former basis.
"What's up, Pasha?" he asked in a low voice. "The Khedive commands your return to Cairo." "With you?" "So, effendi." "Compulsion, eh? I don't see quite. I'm an Englishman, not a fellah." "But I have my commands, saadat el bey." "What's the row, Pasha?" "Is it for the servant to know the mind of his master?" "And if I don't go?"
His greeting was cordial, and we were soon in close conversation, I giving him especially the impressions made upon me by the school, asking questions and making suggestions. He entered very heartily into it all, and detained me long, I wondering constantly where the Khedive might be.
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