[Gutenberg 18868] • With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman

Gregory Hilliard, whose real name is Hartley, comes of an aristocratic family but quarrels with his father over his marriage and finding it hard to make a living as a writer goes out to Egypt for the sake of his wife's health. He passes through the bombardment of Alexandria and then disappears into the Sudan and becomes an officer in Hicks' raggle-taggle army which is sent to destroy the Mahdi's incipient rebellion, but which is wiped out at El Obeid. His young wife remains in Cairo with their baby son, also Gregory, convinced that her husband has somehow survived. However she eventually dies when the boy is sixteen, and in due course the lad accompanies Kitchener o­n his mission.