Doubtless they will send a boat ashore, thinking that you bear a message from me; or if you see they do not do this, you can swim out to them." "I would rather stay with my master.

Cannot you let him go, too ?" "That is impossible," Mahmud said shortly.

"It is known throughout the camp that I have a white man here.

The news will travel fast to the Khalifa.

My actions have already been misrepresented to him, and were I to let this officer go, my father might recall me to Omdurman and send another to command here.
"He must stay, but you may go without harm.