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I struck a blow that measured a man on the floor. Then I drew back, amazed. I had hit Lord Comyn instead! The captain stood a yard beyond me. The thing had been so deftly done by the rector of St. Anne's Comyn jostled at the proper moment between me and Collinson that none save me guessed beyond an accident; least of all my Lord Comyn himself.
Now, for the first time, Mr Collinson learned to what a fearful state they had been reduced, and felt very grateful to them for the way in which they had supplied him, when they so much wanted the water themselves. Mr Collinson continued very ill; and often Bill, as he sat up watching him, thought that he was going to die.
The Camel Corps and the XIIth Soudanese, about 1,200 strong, set forth under Colonel Collinson from Ain el Owega on the 17th, and reached Gedaref safely on the 22nd. Warned of their arrival, Ahmed Fedil, having made a feeble night attack which was repulsed by the garrison with a loss to themselves of two Soudanese wounded, realised that he had now no chance of recapturing the town.
He had intended to leave his horse with Skinner as security for Collinson's provisions, but Skinner's liberality had made this unnecessary, and he now offered it to Collinson to use and keep for him until called for. This would enable his companion to "pack" his goods on the mule, and oblige him to return to the mill by the wagon-road and "outside trail," as more commodious for the two animals.
Captain Collinson was appointed to command the Enterprise, having under him Commander McClure in the Investigator; and on the 20th of January, 1850, they sailed from Plymouth for Behring's Straits, where they were to be joined by the Plover. They were to endeavour to reach Melville Island.
"Why, that's only business, Colly," interposed Uncle Dick quickly; "that's all Jim Parker means; he's a business man, don't you see. Suppose we got killed! You've that draft to show." "Show who?" growled Collinson. "Why, hang it! our friends, our heirs, our relations to get your money, hesitated Uncle Dick.
I have not spoken of it to a soul, and it troubles me above all else: While Maria was getting my cardinal I heard voices on the other side of the dressing-room door. The supper-room is next, you know. I listened, and recognized the rector's deep tones: 'He has gone to the Coffee House, he was saying; Collinson declares that his Lordship is our man, if we can but contrive it.
He stopped, the heads separated; Collinson had appeared at the doorway, his melancholy patience apparently unchanged. "Grub's on, gentlemen; sit by and eat." The humble meal was dispatched with zest and silence. A few interjectional remarks about the uncertainties of prospecting only accented the other pauses. In ten minutes they were out again by the fireplace with their lit pipes.
We all have gone through many hardships, and I dare say they will enjoy a bath and some clean clothes as much as I shall." "Yes, yes! I will look after them," answered the negro, in French; not very good French, by-the-by, but Mr Collinson understood it. "I must, however, obey my young mistress first, and attend to you; so, if monsieur pleases, come along."
General Gatacre commanded the British division Colonel Wauchope the first brigade, and Lyttleton the second. As before, Macdonald, Maxwell, and Lewis commanded the first three Egyptian brigades, and Collinson that newly raised, General Hunter being in command of the division.
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