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With Kitchener in the Soudan

CHAPTER 1: Disinherited
15/40

I may say that it is our custom to allow fifteen pounds, for outfit.

If you will call again in half an hour, I will hand you the ticket and a cheque for that amount; and you can call, the day before you go, for a letter to our agents there." Gregory ascended the stairs to his lodging with a far more elastic step than usual.

His wife saw at once, as he entered, that he had good news of some sort.
"What is it, Gregory ?" "Thank God, darling, that I have good news to give you, at last! I have obtained a situation, at about a hundred and thirty pounds a year, in Alexandria." "Alexandria ?" she repeated, in surprise.
"Yes.

It is the place of all others that I wanted to go to.

You see, I understand the language.


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