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With Kitchener in the Soudan

CHAPTER 10: Afloat
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You will brush my clothes, and make my bed, and do anything that I want done; but beyond that I cannot tell you.

I am really taking you, not because I think you will be of much use, but because I like to have you with me.

Besides, I sha'n't have much to do, and the English officer who commands will have plenty to look after, so that I shall be glad to talk, occasionally, with you.
"However, as I know the gunboats carry Maxim guns, and each have two sergeants of the marine artillery, I will hand you over to them, and ask them to put you in the Maxim crew.

Then you will have the satisfaction of helping to fire at your old enemies." Zaki's eyes glistened at the prospect.
"They killed my mother," he said, "and carried off my sisters, and burned our house.

It will be good to fire at them.


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