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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Are these the right wills?" asked the Sheikh Burrachee, handing them to Harry. "I think so," replied the latter, as he looked them over and examined the signatures; "indeed, I feel certain that they are."
But there was no such failure, and the Black Watch and South Staffordshire fought as British soldiers fought in the Peninsula, at Waterloo, at Alma, and at Inkerman. Higher and higher they came, and the Arabs began to grow uncontrollably excited. The Sheikh Burrachee came to the post occupied by Harry, who immediately let loose his rifle at a fine rock near which there was nobody.
It did not prove serious, however, and when it passed away his mind was clearer than before, though he still seemed like one in a dream, and the past events of his life appeared to him as having happened to some one else. On the morning after his arrival the Sheikh Burrachee left, but some weeks afterwards he returned with an escort and an easy-paced hygeen to take Harry away with him.
Harry was glad of this, since it promised to make his task easier. The Sheikh Burrachee returned, and was rejoiced to find his nephew so much improved in health. Harry took the first opportunity of opening his budget. "Do you mind my speaking to you in English?" he said.
This was the result in one language. To give the Arabic and then the English would involve mere repetition, so I am sure that you will excuse that. Besides I could not do it. Question. "Do you know the Sheikh Burrachee?" Answer. "Yes, everybody knows the Sheikh Burrachee." Question. "Is he not a foreigner to the Soudan?" Answer. "It is said so. He is rich, wise, learned, and he is a True Believer.
But this chance was denied to him, and others went to the island, while the Sheikh Burrachee and his men were posted in the steepest part, the very citadel of this natural fortress. To escape from there before the assault was obviously impossible.
There seemed to be but one chance left to employ the signet-ring, to apply to the principal dervish of Khartoum, and seek out his uncle Ralph, the Sheikh Burrachee. He was most likely with the Mahdi, or else with Osman Digna out Red Sea way; and, in the former case, he would help him to recover what he wanted from Daireh, who was pretty certainly with the False Prophet.
Neither was he sure how his uncle would bear the disappointment if he found out that he had been in the ranks of his enemies the Egyptians. Though he need not have worried himself about that, for the Sheikh Burrachee would only have thought it the method which Destiny had taken to bring him to him.
Harry Forsyth quite followed this speech, and knew that the Sheikh Burrachee alluded to was a relative whom he had seen at some time, and was to rejoin. For anything recalled to him by words he remembered at the time, though it passed from his brain the moment afterwards, neither pleasing him nor distressing him.
"Daireh, the money-lender, against whom I have had so many complaints, but who always manages to have the law on his side?" "The very same." The Sheikh Burrachee clapped his hands; an attendant came. "Bring hither Daireh, the Egyptian usurer," said the sheikh; "and keep him guarded in the outer court." The Arab inclined his head and departed without a word.
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