They chatted in a desultory fashion. Heuttered a cry: Oh! Allah! Then the air rushed from his lungs. He felt his nerves tingle as, first, Yakub and then al-Saada slippedover into the nullah below him. The skyabove the advancing Dervish masses was pocked with bursting puffs ofshrapnel, like cotton pods opening in the sun.
The grey wasstaggering, throwing out its hoofs sloppily at each stride, and was toofar gone to see and avoid the ant bear burrow in its path. Suddenly the Mahdi opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling. Even in his own ears that did not ring true. The infidel camp was in full view less than two miles away.
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