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Current Bates, KENALI ARN

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 101a, 1901

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] A LUCKY ESCAPE.

BY

CLIVE B. FENN (Author of "A Far Away Memory," &c}"

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It had been a stiff morning's fight. The dum dums had worked deadly way with the Baggara horsemen, but yet a good many English went to the last account too.

Estcourt recalled belag struck down, and then a curtain fell. The next thing he realised was curious in the extreme.

He was lifted up; he heard someone say, "He in al Then he was put on a horse in front of a rider. and a long march began.

The hot day, the scene, the desert-all that seemed to go by like a mist; his head swam. It was not till the cool of the evening, when there was a halt, and he and his companion in mis fortune-Sergeant Brocke, were placed in a hut. that complete consciousness returned. He saw

Then he stopped suddenly, for the noise he and made frightened him. A shadow seemned to Bit Boross the open doorway of the hut. And out there in the mysteries of the night every thing was happening, out there across the vast desert, in other lands, on the great sem

Yet rubbing the bolt would do no good. "It would take a good twelve months at least, he thought.

There must be another way-sotnething shart of taking the hut with him.

That poor sergeant!" be thought. "I im agined that we should get away together, but we shall not now,”

He rubbed the iron staple for another minute. but he made ne impression. Then he took hold of the ring. Why should it not come upy He tried to work it backwards and forwards but his efforts were at first futile, for the earth of the hut floor had been beaten hard; but at length be found that the ring slightly_moved; he jerked it, and it moved more. Then he endeavoured to perform one of the movementa recommended to those who employ the athletic- 0xerciser; he took hold of the chain which

self hackwards. The ring came up with a run, and he was thrown heavily on the ground on his back, where he lay for a few minutes with a jar running painfully through his spine sad partially stunning him.

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at the rost

"He will die." he thought. When a man in authority, looked in and asked in guttural Franch if he wis wall, Estcourt on- tered a protest on behalf of his fellow prisoner

"Do something for him," he said: The mau shrugged his shoulders. "Mais il va mourir," "Qu'il veure done," was the brutal reply, and he swaggered out of the hat.

The

Sergeant was in a delirium a few hours later, imagining himself fighting. Estcourt Itoilowatched over him. When morning can be

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He was afraid that they would separate them. hat though several guards came into the hut at about mid-day they wont again without doing more thus glance at the fetters which had been fastened on the prisoners' wrists and ankles. -

In the afternoon Estcourt heard his name called. The Sergeant was lucid, but was near- ing the end.

I am fost," he said feebly; I am. lost. Estcourt, give me your band. "You have much to wish me ill for.

But I don't wish you ill. All that is for- gotten. Bygones are bygones for ever."

"Thanks. What fools we were. How we miss our chances here! Good-bye."

The Sergeant's head fell back. He was dead. Estcourt laid a cloth over the face, and called the sentry who was outside. "What is it?" he said.

"You see my friend: he is dead."

The man maslo a gesture and went out, and a few hours afterwards the body was taken away and buried. Later in the day the man who spoke French

Will

he said. zon join red again. Estcourt indignantly refused.

**You had better reconsider that," said tho men. — " Tan would have_a_post of confidenca You would be at the door of the mastor,"

“I have considered," he replied.

**You will not join us?” ·

"I will not join you."

You will at least give your parole ?"" **I will not."

**Triple fool. You cannot escape, and such conduct, such obstinacy, will make your treat-

-ment-more sovore."

"All the same I am determined. I shall not change."

Then you have but yourself to blame for what may occur.

He gave an impatient shrug of the shoulders and walked out abruptly into the blinding white sunlight which looked su dazzling, go curiously brilliant, viewed from the shadow of the dark. hut. Hours went by; he forgot that the Ser geant was dead, that now he wight try to escape,

nothing withhold him.

And yet," he thought," need I have con- sidered him He made the poor chaps' lives wretched."

Then he fell to thinking about why he, an Oxford man, had enlisted quarrel at home, a it of pique, Perhaps all that would be forgiven

now.

It was all very range. A feeling of indiffər- sace came upon him. It did not much signify,

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Poor Jim!

How I envied him!"

all the old dreams of a vanished summer, with a scene in a lilac scented garden and an early morzing departure before the break of day, with the life in later days, the canteen, the excite- ment of a military feteat the Vistoria Barracks, Windsor-all that came back in a quaint misty way. What would they be doing in London just then?

and listening to the sounds of the

Somehow, though, the anions of what he had to do forced him back to action. He got up, and lifting the chain and staple walked to the door, and looked unt. All was silent. He caught sight of the white robe of an Arab sentinel vanishing round the end of the build- ings in that encampment, and then to moved quickly across the broad silvery patch of moon. fight into the shade of the other hats. Here he paused again.

It needed no long consideration to realise that he could not advance far, fettered as he was by the chains. Ils remained in the shadow of the hats, thinking. Then movement behind used him to start forward again. He continued in the shadow as far as possible, but that friendly glooms would have to be left directly, to know. It was away ont there across the desert in the brilliant unrelieved light that he would find the English. A palm the ahead to the north looked miks away. He reached the end of the encamp- ment, and paused again.

Out of the darkness camo in odd assortment of little sounds; native women wore talking in whispers. One of the little papoose whimpered, and a camel seemed to be entering a protest.

What if he was soon it would not mean anything very peaceful for bûn....

It is necessary not to be caught," he thought.

The duty before him was to escape, and give the alarm, for otherwise the Mudist hordes might effect a surprise and win at ang rata e temporary success under its half breed leaders,

He soon came to the end of the shadow; in case of detection there would be nothing els for it but running.

The white desert stretched ahead like a vast silver sheet with no und to it. He was sure be was going right; he had to take the direction of the north, and there was the Nile away to the right far distant.

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And he went on talking; but unfortunately. it was mostly in the native tongue-only a few words of which Estcourt could understand

So far as his chains would allow him he got up and listened. He made out such words as Surprise will end it all" - "to-morrow

and he gathered from it that an attack was to be made,

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Then the English were near-near to El Farz and they were ignorant of the presence of the enemy. They might be defeated, annihilated absolutely. They ought to be warned. But how

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