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In the Mahdi's Grasp, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: In the Mahdi's Grasp
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Lancelot Speed
Release Date: March 28, 2008 [EBook #24926]
Language: English
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In the Mahdi's Grasp
CHAPTER ONE.
IN WIMPOLE STREET.
Sam--or, as he liked to be called, "Mr Samuel," or "Mr Downes," holding as he did the important post of confidential and body-servant to Dr Robert Morris, a position which made it necessary for him to open the door to patients and usher them into the consulting-room, and upon particular occasions be called in to help with a visitor who had turned faint about nothing--"a poor plucked 'un," as he termed him--
To begin again:--
Sam, who was in his best black and stiffest white tie, consequent upon "the doctor" having company to dinner that evening, had just come out of the dining-room of the dingy house in Wimpole Street, carrying a mahogany tray full of dish covers, when cook opened the glass door at the top of the kitchen stairs, thrust her head into the hall, looked eagerly at Sam, as she stood f