He knew for certain it had been after midnight, becausehe had wound his pocket watch before he blew out the lamp. The Dervish harassing fire still spurtedand smoked from the tops of the dunes and from among the thick scrub inthe hollows below them. David had takenher and the twins with him on an official visit to the upper reaches ofthe Victoria Nile. These facts are learned, not from independent relicsalone, but also from terracotta steeds found in the tumuli andmoulded so as to show all their trappings.
The visits from the taciturn doctor ceased. He turned tothe most trusted of his men. Then he hacked his way out through the attackers, andbroke clear. They were slaughtered by the ragged ill-armed Ansar.
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