They massed, shouted to God, and came again, tearing across thetrampled field where so many of their comrades already lay. Arguing, however, that to his younger brother, Woke it was entirelydue that they had emerged from a state of abject misery, Then he hacked his way out through the attackers, andbroke clear. Only you, lascivious and bloodthirsty Yakub, could combine love andbattle in the same thought.
By this time I should have learnt not to be surprised byanything that the intrepid Yakub comes up with. I shall speak to him at the first opportunity. He clapped his hat on to hishead and set out down the terrace towards Gordon's headquarters. Major al-Faroque was walking down the line, his servicerevolver in his right hand.
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