CHAPTER III.
So he thinks he shall take to the sea again For one more cruise with his buccaneers, To singe the beard of the King of Spain, And capture another Dean of Jaen And sell him in Algiers .-- A Dutch Picture .-- Longfellow THE SOUDAN campaign and Dick's broken head had been some months ended and mended, and the Central Southern Syndicate had paid Dick a certain sum on account for work done, which work they were careful to assure him was not altogether up to their standard.

Dick heaved the letter into the Nile at Cairo, cashed the draft in the same town, and bade a warm farewell to Torpenhow at the station.
'I am going to lie up for a while and rest,' said Torpenhow.

'I don't know where I shall live in London, but if God brings us to meet, we shall meet.
Are you starying here on the off-chance of another row?
There will be none till the Southern Soudan is reoccupied by our troops.

Mark that.
Good-bye; bless you; come back when your money's spent; and give me your address.' Dick loitered in Cairo, Alexandria, Ismailia, and Port Said,--especially Port Said.

There is iniquity in many parts of the world, and vice in all, but the concentrated essence of all the iniquities and all the vices in all the continents finds itself at Port Said.