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Updated: September 20, 2025
The letters from Captain Carreras had become more frequent in late years; in fact, there was almost always a letter en route either from Preshbend or Equatoria.... The Captain wanted him to come; stronger and stronger became the call. So far as money was concerned, he had done extraordinarily well.
There were moments when his passion became utterly ungovernable; and the gentle soldier of God, who had spent the day in quoting texts for the edification of his sister, would slap the face of his Arab aide-de-camp in a sudden access of fury, or set upon his Alsatian servant and kick him until he screamed. At the end of three years, Gordon resigned his post in Equatoria,
Angrily, he would brush the whole phantasmagoria away, force himself back into the world of Equatoria, stride out of his rooms, if it were day, and down into the city; but the pressure of the deeper activities of his mind would steal back and command him. His physical nature was sunk into a great ennui, and the other forces were the mightier.
Most tropical fruits were native to Equatoria those thick, abbreviated red bananas, and small oranges with thin skin of suede finish, so sharply sweet that one never forgets the first taste. These were served in their own foliage. Much of the solid and comfortable furnishing of the hacienda had come from the old English house of the Carreras' in Surrey.
It might be necessary to abandon, for the time being, the more remote garrisons in Darfur and Equatoria; but Khartoum must be held at all costs. To allow the Mahdi to enter Khartoum would not merely mean the return of the whole of the Sudan to barbarism; it would be a menace to the safety of Egypt herself.
Bedient felt that he was needed in Equatoria, but there was another reason for his sudden return, than attention to the large financial interests. Though his home was there, Equatoria had no imperious call for him that his inner nature answered.... Only India had that. The very name was like water to a fevered throat. They would know in India.
I've worked with men done a man's work among the newspapers. I'd call it bigger than all that has happened for the good fortune of Equatoria if I could make you look as " She checked the tumult of words. There was a misty look in her eyes and his. He smiled and held himself hard, to say steadily: "A man doesn't often win so dear a friend "
About the same time Slatin Bey surrendered in Darfur and embraced Muhammedan-ism, and Lupton Bey, following his example, also adopted the religion of Islam, and yielded in Bahr-el-Ghazel. Emin Pasha alone retained his authority, derived originally from Egypt, in the province of Equatoria. Sir H. M. Stanley afterwards made his famous journey "Through Darkest Africa" and rescued this famous pasha.
That dear old seaman through his solitudes, his natural cleanness and kindness, his real love, and more than all, through those vague visions which come late to men of simple hearts had seemed, from several startling sayings, to touch the very ache in the young man's breast. Bedient bent forward, perceiving that "here" meant his earthly life, as well as Equatoria.
"I should have stayed over yonder and sat down as you did before you did. Here" now the Captain meant Equatoria alone "I have thought of my stomach and my ease. My stomach has gone back on me and there is no ease. Over there, I might have oh, I might have thought more but I didn't know enough, early enough. And you did at seventeen, you did! That's what made you.
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