The Sudanese soldiers were grinning from ear to ear with delight and pride.

The one person quite unmoved was Harry Luttrell, whose ingenuity had invented the device.
"Let it be done just so," he said to the soldiers.

"I shall not forgive a mistake." They saluted, and he dismissed them and turned at last to Martin Hillyard.
"It's good to see you again," he said, as he shook hands; and then he looked sharply into Hillyard's face and laughed.

"Shook you up a bit, that performance, eh?
Well, they bungled things in Khartum a little while ago.

I can't afford awkwardness here." Senga was in the centre of that old Khalifa's tribe which not so many years ago ruled in Omdurman.