29/45 The children knew not what had happened. At evening, the box was bound upon a mule, and we rode silently for fourteen hours, and crossed to the ruins of Nineveh shortly after sunrise. The flag of the English Consul was thrown over the body as we crossed the Tigris. A narrow house had already been prepared for it outside the walls (not even the dead body of a Moslem could have been carried within the gates); Mr.Marsh had a short service; and there we laid the wife, the mother, down to her last sleep."[1] [1] Memoir of Dr.Lobdell, p. 330. |