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She cried out again, danced up and down and waved both handsover her head. Al-Noor, at the head of the band of horsemen,was in a similar predicament. He lifted it high over his head. Atlast they shrank away and rode back to the cliffs.

Penrod snatched the field-glasses from him and stared back at them. He would be deniedadvancement and forced to resign his commission. He drew out his knife, whose point sank into the wood asthough it were cheese. It was massed among the mud-brick buildings, and the cavalrylines extended as far as the banks of the Nile a mile beyond thecity.