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The Project Gutenberg EBook of In the Mahdi's Grasp, by George Manville Fenn This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: In the Mahdi's Grasp Author: George Manville Fenn Illustrator: Lancelot Speed Release Date: March 28, 2008 [EBook #24926] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE MAHDI'S GRASP *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England In the Mahdi's Grasp, by George Manville Fenn. ________________________________________________________________________ A young army officer has been captured during the wars in Soudan, and is being held as a slave in the stronghold of the Mahdi. For years it had been thought that he was dead. His friends in London decide to go and try to rescue him. One of them is a well-known and proficient surgeon. They arrive in Cairo, and proceed on down into the Soudan, where they get in contact with an influential Sheikh. They establish themselves by doing many cures, where it is possible, and gradually work themselves nearer and nearer to the place where they estimate the missing Harry to be. Eventually they are able to make contact. Harry breaks his own arm in order to be brought to the surgeon, or Hakim, for a cure. Eventually they are able to escape with him, but to do so they have to run right through a battle. They had brought out with them a personal manservant, at his own request, and he had been in a semi-disguise, by staining the skin a very deep colour. This very nearly results in his being killed on the battlefield through which they are escaping. An informative book, quite a long one, in a good Manville Fenn style, which is well-known for sustained tension. ________________________________________________________________________ IN THE MAHDI'S GRASP, BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN. CHAPTER ONE. IN WIMPOLE STREET. Sam--or, as he liked to be called, "Mr Samuel," or "Mr Downes," holding as he did the important post of confidential and body-servant to Dr Robert Morris, a position which made it necessary for him to open the door to patients and usher them into the consulting-room, and upon particular occasions be called in to help with a visitor who had turned
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