Gordon did not want the populace to see for themselves howperilously low the stocks had fallen. He would tell her later that he must leave within days for the UnitedStates and Canada to negotiate for the purchase of twenty thousand tonsof wheat. The spectators shrieked and roared. Theytransferred their saddles to them, and turned loose their own exhaustedanimals to find the water in Marbad Tegga, then make their way to thedistant river.
The palewounds were so raw and recent that they glistened with the running sap,which would dry into sticky black lumps of the precious gum arabic. The front rank of thecharge shuddered to the shock. He was executed in Omdurman. Ali tried not to grin at this levity, for all three of his wives wereancient crones.
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