I should wish the balance of pay coming to me to be handed to him, as well as my camel and horse, and all other belongings.

By the sale of these he would be able, at the end of the war, to buy a piece of land and settle down among his own people.
"Will you kindly report my capture to Colonel Wingate or General Hunter?
Thanking you for your kindness to me, I remain, "Yours faithfully, "Gregory Hilliard.
"P.

S.In my cabin is a tin box containing documents of importance to me.

I shall be greatly obliged if you will take charge of these, until--as I hope will be the case--I rejoin you." He handed the paper to Zaki, who took his hand and raised it to his forehead, with tears in his eyes.
"I go because you order me, master," he said, in a broken voice; "but I would a thousand times rather remain, and share your fate, whatever it might be." Then he turned, and abruptly left the tent.
Twice that day, Gregory had received food from a female slave of the harem.

Although he knew that he should miss Zaki greatly, he was very glad that he had been sent away; for he felt that, although for the time he had been reprieved, his position was very precarious, and that his servant's would have been still more so.