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Updated: May 12, 2025
This is what he had to say on two sheets of paper: LORD ERNEST BORROW, Grand Hotel, Khartum: In train leaving Assuan met man from Meroee told me work begun at our place strange news don't understand but sure you two haven't gone ahead of bargain must be foul play or else mistake but thought matter too serious go on north left train returned Assuan caught government steamer for Halfa just arrived too late for train de luxe but will proceed by ordinary train to camp better meet me there soon as possible leaving boat people take care of themselves.
Shall I tell you why? Because you are blind. She is afraid. While I I will tell you the truth I am glad. When the news first came from Wadi Halfa that you were blind, I was glad; when I saw you in Hill Street, I was glad; ever since, I have been glad quite glad. Because I saw that she shrank.
From that to Halfa would be another five." "Well, when we don't return, the steamer will give the alarm." "And where shall we be by that time?" "My poor Norah! My poor little Norah!" muttered Belmont, in the depths of his grizzled moustache. "What do you suppose that they will do with us, Cochrane?" he asked after a pause. "They may cut our throats, or they may take us as slaves to Khartoum.
So the Korosko had been taken, and the chances of rescue upon which they had reckoned all those elaborate calculations of hours and distances were as unsubstantial as the mirage which shimmered upon the horizon. There would be no alarm at Halfa until it was found that the steamer did not return in the evening.
Halfa had now become the terminus of a railway, which was rapidly extending; and the continual arrival and despatch of tons of material, the building of sheds, workshops, and storehouses lent the African slum the bustle and activity of a civilised city. Sarras Fort is an extensive building, perched on a crag of black rock rising on the banks of the Nile about thirty miles south of Halfa.
It had now to be maintained, worked, and rapidly extended. The terminus at Halfa had become a busy town. A mud village was transformed into a miniature Crewe. The great workshops that had grown with the line were equipped with diverse and elaborate machines.
"He left Halfa eight weeks ago, eh?" he said gloomily. "Eight weeks to-day," replied the colonel. It was the third officer, a tall, spare, long-necked major of the Army Service Corps, who alone hazarded a cheerful prophecy. "It's early days to conclude Durrance has got scuppered," said he. "One knows Durrance.
Macnamara wished many a time that he could take to the desert with the waler; but the ride that he must ride to Wady Halfa was not for a horse. None but a camel could do it. Besides, he must have guides, and how was he to pay guides?
"Yes, for I came across him this Spring at Wadi Halfa," Durrance continued. "He had fallen rather low," and he told Willoughby of their meeting outside of the café of Tewfikieh. "It's strange, isn't it? a man whom one knew very well going under like that in a second, disappearing before your eyes as it were, dropping plumb out of sight as though down an oubliette in an old French castle.
I have authorized you to speak of Wadi Halfa, haven't I? Then I have the right, I should think " "André!" Now he was looking maliciously at the wall, at the little portrait the replica of which I had just subjected to this painful scene. "There, there, I say, you aren't angry, are you? But between ourselves you will admit, will you not, that she is a little thin?"
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