Ryder felt a cold slide of disappointment. In his extremity he desiredto be received into the Buddhist faith to which he had alwaysinclined, and he ordered the leading officials to consider thematter. What message can I take back to Omdurmanfor your sisters? he asked. She knelt before himand removed his uniform.
She gasped as his mouth closed on hers. When,however, the leader of the invaders had established his Court inYamato the designation Takama-ga-hara came to be applied to thelatter place. As it spread, a sombre, funereal mood descendedon the city of Khartoum. In God's name I declare jihad,holy war, on the Turk.
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