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The Four Feathers Page #6
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- 1939
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Well, I made a nice mess of that,
didn't I?
- Faversham!
- Harry, how the devil did you get here?
- Who sent you?
- Nobody.
Then what you - what you doing here?
- For heaven's sake, explain, Harry.
- There's no time to explain now.
We're in an infernal mess,
but there's still a chance. Now listen to me.
The Khalifa has gone out
to meet Kitchener.
If he gets beaten,
he'll slit our throats in revenge.
If he wins, he'll slit 'em out of pure joy.
Right opposite the prison gates
is the arsenal of the Khalifa.
That's our one chance. Just a couple of guards
and a few storekeepers, and that's about all.
- Have you got that file?
- Yes. That file was an absolute brain wave.
We must work like blazes.
Now, is there anybody here who understands
the language of these poor devils?
Yes. That old fellow over there.
I'll go and fetch him.
Are you all right, Harry?
I'm all right, Fat Face.
Harry. This is Karaga Pasha...
once governor
of the province of Kordofan.
You speak English
and the language of these people?
They all understand one or the other.
Then you can do a great service
to yourself and to all these people.
Will you tell them that I have brought
the means of setting them free?
Tell them that once they are freed,
on no account...
must they make a sign or a movement
until they get the word from me.
We must work very fast.
Tom, break that file in two.
Bring me the strongest man first.
Fix!
Fix!
- Bayonets!
- Bayonets.
They're deploying to attack, sir.
Perkins, go to the right.
Cramley, go to the left.
Tell the brigade
to take up their position.
Tell them to withhold their fire
until the last possible moment.
Front wing! Kneel!
Hold!
Grand sight, ain't it?
- Getting 'orrible close. When do we fire?
- When we're told.
Stick it, lad.
If you can't look at 'em coming on,
shut your eyes.
I'll nudge ya when to open 'em.
Present!
Fire!
Get your chains on.
Karaga, tell them it's now or never.
Tell them they mustn't move an inch
They're rallying again, sir.
- There aren't so many of them now.
- Nor of us, sir.
Lengthen range 350. We'll have
that tower down with the black flag on it.
- That's the arsenal, sir.
- Good! Then we'll blow it up.
Lengthen range 350!
- That's not a Dervish gun. That's our gun.
- They'll blow us to pieces!
Wait here.
They're firing at the black flag.
We must get it down,
put something else up instead.
Anything! This'll do.
Harry. Look here!
It's the one they took from us.
- All right. I'll take it.
- All right.
They're lowering the flag, surrendering.
Hauling up a white one.
- It isn't white, sir. It's ours.
- What?
Paper! Paper!
Khartoum recaptured by Kitchener!
Paper! Paper!
Khartoum recaptured! Paper!
Paper! Paper! Paper!
Come in.
- Hello, John.
- Hello, Doctor.
How are you?
Have a drink.
On the table there.
- Do you mind if I light the gas?
- Sorry, old man.
Meant to have done it before you came.
No, no. Give me the matches. I'll light it.
- Have you heard the news?
- I've been listening.
Is it true? We've got Khartoum?
It's just come through. Kitchener broke
the Dervishes's army at Omdurman.
Good. Good. Splendid.
Well, that's that.
Sit down, Doctor.
- Whiskey?
- Not just now, John.
You've seen Dr. Wesley?
I've just left him.
Heine, the German specialist,
was there too.
Nice fellow, that German.
Took a lot of trouble.
You needn't tell me the verdict, Doctor.
I quite understand.
I think it's what you expected, John.
He doesn't feel that an operation -
Neither did I.
A man gets to understand these things.
If there had been any sort of spark left inside
that could be fanned up again...
I'm certain
I should have felt it there.
I've known for some time
that they were...
stone dead.
Heine explained that the trouble
sometimes comes...
from a lesion
that can be repaired by operation.
- In your case -
- In my case, it's a complete blackout.
No harm in getting the best man anyway.
- You earned your whiskey now, Doctor.
- Thanks.
Might have been a lot worse.
If I had known from the start
it was hopeless...
I'd probably have blown my brains out.
Today it isn't half so bad.
I've been learning to read this Braille stuff.
- Yeah?
- Funny how quickly the fingers get sensitive.
Listen.
"Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
sounds and sweet airs...
that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling
instruments will hum about mine ears...
and sometimes voices...
but if I then had waked after a long sleep...
will make me sleep again;
and then, in dreaming...
the clouds methought would open,
and show riches ready to drop upon me...
that, when I waked...
- Splendid.
- Marvelous, isn't it?
I knew that bit by heart anyway.
- Here - Here's to your health, Doctor.
- Well, here's to you, John.
To Kitchener and his bright lads
in Khartoum.
Now, stretch out your legs
and read the news.
There's a report by Mallinson,
the war correspondent.
- "Khartoum, second September. "
- Good. Good. Now, do read it.
"From the shadow of Gordon's palace,
I am proud to send news...
of a glorious victory.
At dawn this morning,
after a wild night of storm and rain...
scouts reported that the Dervish army
was massing to give battle...
upon the hills above Kerreri. "
the British would be destroyed.
Now, if the Dervish
had ignored that silly rot and fought -
- Oh, shut up and listen.
- Sorry.
"At 6:
00 the Dervish armyadvanced en masse...
and flung themselves with fanatical bravery
upon the British square.
Within two hours the Dervish forces
were broken and in flight.
A full report upon
the fighting at Kerreri will be sent...
when details are available...
but your correspondent, who accompanied
the Royal North Surrey Regiment" -
Good old Surreys.
"... was privileged to witness the most dramatic
and astonishing scene in this inspiring day. "
Hmm.
"During the battle, the prisoners
in the Omdurman dungeons...
overwhelmed their guards,
captured the arsenal and held it...
- until relieved by Anglo-Egyptian troops. "
- Bravo!
"The achievement was led and inspired...
by two British officers
of the Royal North Surrey Regiment...
captured in the fight at Gakdul Wells,
Lieutenants Burroughs and Willoughby. "
Peter! Alive!
And good old Willoughby!
Isn't that splendid!
- What's the time?
- The time? It's just on 7:00.
- We'll go tonight.
- What?
We'll be the first to tell Ethne
and the old man.
Ha! He'll be crazy
with excitement about this!
- Joe! Joe!
- Yes, sir?
Pack my bag. Send a message round to
Dr. Sutton's house to send his bag round here.
We're going to General Burroughs's.
The 8:
15 from Paddington.Oh, but I've got an important appointment
in the morning, John.
- And, Joe!
- Yes, sir?
Tell Dr. Sutton's man to cancel
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