I shall, of course, tell him then what my real name is, so that I can be gazetted in it.

It is likely enough that, even after we defeat the Mahdi, this war may go on for some time before it is stamped out; and in another year I may be a full-blown colonel, if only an Egyptian one; and as the pay of the English officers is good, I shall be able to have a very comfortable home for you.
"I need not repeat my instructions, darling, as to what you must do in the event, improbable as it is, of disaster.

When absolutely assured of my death, but not until then, you will go back to England with the boy, and see my father.

He is not a man to change his mind, unless I were to humble myself before him; but I think he would do the right thing for you.

If he will not, there is the letter for Geoffrey.