Encounter
URMESTER'S eye caught my staring. He wondered who it was, for I was burned crimson and very haggard with travel.
(Later I found my weight to be less than seven stone). However, he answered; and I explained the history of our unannounced raid on Akaba. It excited him. I asked that the admiral send a storeship there at once. Burmester said the Dufferin, which came in that day, should load all the food in Suez, go straight to Akaba, and bring back the prisoners. (Splendid!) He would order it himself, not to interrupt the Admiral and Allenby.
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