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sinned that our people were going to renew the chap.
engagement, hut also made sure that — because ._
succeeding to Murray, or rather to Murray's suc-
cessor — he now at last would be summoned to
take a part in the enterprise. He therefore
eagerly sought to know what was the duty await-
ing him, and addressed his question to Graham,
then newly come out of action. Graham an-
swered somewhat lightly — in words which im-
ported that the engagement had ceased, and that
there was nothing for the enquirer to do. There-
upon, the young lion was wrought into a phrenzy
of disappointment and rage, the rage indeed being
so hot that there followed something like an
estrangement between the two friends. This allusion
it on , ... to his sub-
lmpassioned lieutenant or bappers was a soldier sequent
. . career.
marked out for strange destinies, no other than
Gordon — Charles Gordon — then ripening into
a hero sublimely careless of self, and a warrior-
saint of the kind that Moslems — rather than
Christians — are fondly expecting from God.
XI.
Before daylight, the troops set apart for assault- Troops us-
ing the Redan on its eastern flank were collected fau" che.u'ui
in those lines of trench-work which, till wrested theeastem
from the enemy on the 7th of June, had formed Redan.
the counter-approaches established on his left of
the ' Quarries ' ; and the same triple wave of a flag
that unleashed, as we saw, Campbell's force on
the west of the Redan was also the recognised
