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CONTENTS.
CHAP. Page
I. MIXED! 11
II. AT CHELTENHAM, 27
III. GONE, 47
IV. BACK AT SCHOOL, 65
V. ENLISTED, 84
VI. EGYPT, 97
VII. EL-TEB, 116
VIII. TAMANIEB, 134
IX. THE CAMEL CORPS, 144
X. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING, 165
XI. ABU KLEA, 183
XII. METEMMEH, 201
XIII. ABU KRU, 218
XIV. A SLAVE, 235
XV. BAD NEWS, 253
XVI. IN DISGUISE, 270
XVII. A RUNAWAY SLAVE, 288
XVIII. THE ZAREBA, 306
XIX. A LONG SEARCH, 325
XX. FOUND! 340
XXI. HOME! 359
CHAPTER I
MIXED!
In a room in the married non-commissioned officers' quarters in the
cantonments at Agra, a young woman was sitting looking thoughtfully at
two infants, who lay sleeping together on the outside of a bed with a
shawl thrown lightly over them. Jane Humphreys had been married about a
year. She was the daughter of the regimental sergeant-major, and had
been a spoilt child. She was good looking, and had, so the wives and
daughters of the other non-commissioned officers said, laid herself out
to catch one of the young officers of the regiment, and was bitterly
disappointed at the failure of her efforts.
The report may have been untrue, for Jane Farran was by no means popular
with the other women, taking far too much upon herself, as they
considered, upon the strength of her father's rank, and giving herself
airs as if she were better than those around her. There were girls in
the regiment just as good looking as she was without any of her airs and
tempers. Why should she set herself up above the rest?
When, however, Sergeant-major Farran died suddenly of sunstroke after a
heavy field-day, whatever plans and hopes his daughter may have
entertained came to an end. Her name and that of her mother were put
down among the women to be sent, with the next batch of invalids, home
to England, and she suddenly accepted the offer of marriage of young
Sergeant Humphreys, whose advances she had previously treated with
scorn. They were married six weeks later, on the day before her mother
was to go down by train with a party of invalids to Calcutta. The
universal opinion of the women in the regiment was that the sergeant had
got a bad bargain.
CHAP. Page
I. MIXED! 11
II. AT CHELTENHAM, 27
III. GONE, 47
IV. BACK AT SCHOOL, 65
V. ENLISTED, 84
VI. EGYPT, 97
VII. EL-TEB, 116
VIII. TAMANIEB, 134
IX. THE CAMEL CORPS, 144
X. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING, 165
XI. ABU KLEA, 183
XII. METEMMEH, 201
XIII. ABU KRU, 218
XIV. A SLAVE, 235
XV. BAD NEWS, 253
XVI. IN DISGUISE, 270
XVII. A RUNAWAY SLAVE, 288
XVIII. THE ZAREBA, 306
XIX. A LONG SEARCH, 325
XX. FOUND! 340
XXI. HOME! 359
CHAPTER I
MIXED!
In a room in the married non-commissioned officers' quarters in the
cantonments at Agra, a young woman was sitting looking thoughtfully at
two infants, who lay sleeping together on the outside of a bed with a
shawl thrown lightly over them. Jane Humphreys had been married about a
year. She was the daughter of the regimental sergeant-major, and had
been a spoilt child. She was good looking, and had, so the wives and
daughters of the other non-commissioned officers said, laid herself out
to catch one of the young officers of the regiment, and was bitterly
disappointed at the failure of her efforts.
The report may have been untrue, for Jane Farran was by no means popular
with the other women, taking far too much upon herself, as they
considered, upon the strength of her father's rank, and giving herself
airs as if she were better than those around her. There were girls in
the regiment just as good looking as she was without any of her airs and
tempers. Why should she set herself up above the rest?
When, however, Sergeant-major Farran died suddenly of sunstroke after a
heavy field-day, whatever plans and hopes his daughter may have
entertained came to an end. Her name and that of her mother were put
down among the women to be sent, with the next batch of invalids, home
to England, and she suddenly accepted the offer of marriage of young
Sergeant Humphreys, whose advances she had previously treated with
scorn. They were married six weeks later, on the day before her mother
was to go down by train with a party of invalids to Calcutta. The
universal opinion of the women in the regiment was that the sergeant had
got a bad bargain.
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