The Flag of the Adventurer

“/At/ last!” murmured Eveleen Ambrose with heartfelt relief, gaining the unsteady deck by dint of a frantic clutch at her husband’s arm, and cannoning helplessly against an unfo...

/But/ if a difference about money was the immediate cause of the strained relations between Major Ambrose and his wife, no one would have denied more vehemently than Eveleen her...

/The/ famous city of Qadirabad, the seat of such government as Khemistan possessed, was not reached from Bab-us-Sahel without difficulty. There was a ride across the desert firs...

/Morning/ brought--if not counsel--a considerable measure of cheerfulness to Eveleen. To her buoyant temperament protracted gloom was impossible, and her husband smiled to remem...

/The/ escort must have formed a high idea of the courage of European ladies when Eveleen led the way the next morning in the direction of the very canal where, as they had learn...

/Bab-us-Sahel/ had the advantage over Qadirabad that its natural torridity was tempered by the sea breeze in the daytime and the land breeze at night, but that was all. After th...

/It/ was late when Brian Delany found his way to Mrs Gibbons’s bungalow, so late that the good lady herself--pardonably weary after a long hot afternoon spent in looking up or i...

“/For/ the last time!” said Colonel Bayard, with a comical glance of self-pity at Richard, as they rode out the next morning preceded by the chobdars with their silver sticks an...

/As/ usual after the cool weather had begun, the river was beginning to go down, and it was no easy matter for the _Nebula_ to pick her way up-stream. As her captain said pathet...

/Public/ opinion at Sahar was divided on the subject of Sir Henry Lennox. To the elegant he was a disreputable old figure of fun, certain to bring irreparable disgrace upon Brit...

/It/ seemed that Gul Ali’s ignominious flight had served to stimulate in his brother Shahbaz Khan the amiable instinct to profit by his disgrace, for very shortly afterwards he...

/Life/ at Sahar after the departure of the expedition was every whit as dull as Eveleen had known it would be. For a whole week she held out obstinately against that tempting su...

/Colonel Bayard/ looked after Brian with a sigh. “Your brother is highly conscientious, ma’am, but I hope I know better than to use improper language about his chief in his pres...

/After/ that exciting ride home, profound peace reigned about the Residency for a whole day, as though the Khans wished to give time for the impression to sink in. Then their Va...

/Awakened/ at sunrise by the festive sound of a steam-whistle, the fugitives from the Agency turned out to view the approach of a vessel identified by Captain Franks as the _Gal...

“/We/ are honoured, Mrs Ambrose,” said Sir Harry, with his most courtly bow, as Eveleen hurried out of her tent--as quickly as its extreme smallness would allow--to receive the...

“/A grand/ joke for y’, Evie!” Brian ran up the steps gleefully, forgetful for the moment of the anxious charge which--so his friends alleged--was sapping the bloom from his you...

/Nearly/ a month after the battle of Mahighar part of the load was lifted from Sir Henry’s burdened mind by the Governor-General’s ordering the annexation of Khemistan and the d...

/It/ seemed only natural to Eveleen, who had learnt the hour of the start from Brian, to bind Ketty by promises and threats to wake her at half-past three, so that she was able...

/It/ would be pleasant to state that the shock Eveleen had received turned her in one hour into a normal wife, and that feminine intuition taught her to care for her husband in...

/Still/ the storm tarried. Supper was served, and Eveleen made a pretence of eating, lest the servants should attribute her lack of appetite to fear. Then they went away to have...

/When/ Eveleen came to the surface again--for she had found no footing when she slipped from the boat’s side--she thought she must be dreaming. On the gunwale above her stood Ri...

/Visiting/ his various friends, and hearing all that had happened since the battle and his wound, Brian passed a pleasant three days at Khanpur. Nor was his enjoyment sensibly m...

/Tom Carthew/ must have known that Kamal-ud-din had hurried back into the field in the hope of uniting with his brother’s force before Sir Harry could intercept it, but he did n...

/The/ sun had risen some time, and the waves of heat were rolling up to the assault of Colonel Bleackley’s camp in the shadeless desert, but the bored and discontented officers...