column-twenty

Updated: August 29, 2026

Brown tore it open, and read the message, scowling at the half-sheet of paper as though it were a death-sentence. "Where's the general?" "With his column-twenty or thirty miles away to the northward by now!" "And he's left me, with this handful, in the lurch?" "Nay, sahib! As I understood the orders, he has left you with a very honorable mission to fulfil!"

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East