[It was he! It was Gordon] . . . Frontispiece
["Yes; conspiracy against you and against England"]
[The Consul-General . . . was hurling his last reproaches upon his enemies]
THE WHITE PROPHET
BOOK THREE—Continued
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER XI
When Helena awoke next morning she was immediately conscious of a great commotion both within and without the house. After a moment Zenoba came into the bedroom and began to tell her what had happened.
"Have you not heard, O Rani?" said the Arab woman, in her oily voice. "No? You sleep so late, do you? When everybody is up and doing, too! Well, the Master has news that the great Bedouin is at Omdurman and he is sending the people down to the river to bring him up. The stranger is to be received in the mosque, I may tell you. Yes, indeed, in the mosque, although he is English and a Christian."