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I happened to know that he proposed a dash from Cairo to Assuan by train, for I had received two telegrams at the moment of walking off the boat. The first message announced his almost immediate advent; the second regretted unavoidable delay, but expressed an intention not to let us steam away for Wady Halfa without seeing him.
At last all the Legations shivered, and urgent telegrams were sent to the British admiral for reinforcements to be rushed up at all costs. But too late too late; the Manchu servants who have friends among the guards at the Palace gates have said this all the evening.
Sir Redvers Buller before the troops left the camps beside the railway had six infantry brigades. There are indications in the telegrams of a reorganisation and redistribution of battalions among the brigades, so that it is hardly safe to speak with certainty as to the present composition and distribution of the commands.
She learned that honours came thronging about him unsought; that the King of the Belgians had conferred a decoration upon him; that the geographical societies of continental Europe had elected him to honourary membership; that the President and the Secretary of War had sent telegrams of congratulations. "And what does he do," she murmured, "the first of all upon his return? Asks to see me me!"
"Oh, by Jove!" "Well, Mr. Laing?" said Dora. "The morning you left just after there were two telegrams." "For me?" said each of his auditors. "One for each of you, but "Oh, give me mine." "Hand over mine, old chap." "I I haven't got 'em." "What?" "I I'm awfully sorry, I. I forgot 'em." "Oh, how tiresome of you, Mr. Laing!" "Send 'em round first thing to-morrow, Laing."
He figured briskly the while he waved adieu to his friends, who hurried away, struck with their own predicament. "You had better go on out to the house, father, and I'll send some telegrams." It looks like black weather to me. Don't say anything to any one until after we have had our talk; then we can decide what to do."
With the others departed Miss Camilla Van Arsdale's two emergency guests, one of them the rather splendid young woman who had helped with the wounded. They invaded Banneker's office with supplementary telegrams and talked about their hostess with that freedom which women of the world use before dogs or uniformed officials. "What a woman!" said the amateur nurse.
'Come along, Tommy, said he, 'I will try and find some one for you to play with, little man. "'Play with! answered the little brother in a tone of utter surprise. 'My dear sir, I have no time to play. Letters, telegrams, appointments by scores fill my time. Let me tell you, sir, there is no busier man than your humble servant in the whole country.
Sixteen thousand men under General Hooker were rushed to its relief, provisions were forwarded within a day's march of the town, awaiting the opening of new roads, and finally, when the stream of frantic telegrams from the front showed that the army had practically no leadership, hurried orders were forwarded to Grant, authorizing him to remove Rosecrans, place Thomas temporarily in control and take the field himself at the earliest possible moment.
Still uninterested in the man who shadowed him, he walked back to the office window and wrote two telegrams; one to Bombay, ordering the arrest of Ali Mirza of the Fort, with an urgent admonition to discover who his man Abdul might be, and to seize him as soon as found; the other to the station in the north, insisting on dose confinement for Suliman.
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