Saffron was too shocked to speak orweep. When the colt lost his balance andtoppled backwards, the watching aggagiers shouted and al-Noor beat onhis leather shield with his scabbard. They reached the entrance to the reeking sanitary lane that ran alongthe back wall of the palace. He tripped over Amber, who was at his heels.
As he swivelled on the high wooden saddle Penrod saw that hehad a rifle in his hands, and was lifting it to level it at him. When this is over, I could sell up here, and take her back to England,he thought. Apart from them there were hardly any white womenremaining in Khartoum, except the nuns and the Austrian doctor from theleper colony. Asubject might murder his sovereign and succeed him without incurringthe odium of the people.
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