. On the road to Bagdad, a story of Townshend's gallent advance on the Tigris. quite indignant, and, to tell the truth,the grip which Geoff had inadvertently fastened uponhis chums head of hair had been excessively painful;but in a moment he had transferred it to the shoulderof the Turk, and had drawn him close to the side ofthe dinghy. The stout and somewhat elderly com-mander was puffing like a grampus, and spurtingwater out of his mouth, while he wriggled and struggledto free himself from the one who had thrown his armsround him. Thoroughly scared by the unexpectedassault which had been mad
. On the road to Bagdad, a story of Townshend's gallent advance on the Tigris. quite indignant, and, to tell the truth,the grip which Geoff had inadvertently fastened uponhis chums head of hair had been excessively painful;but in a moment he had transferred it to the shoulderof the Turk, and had drawn him close to the side ofthe dinghy. The stout and somewhat elderly com-mander was puffing like a grampus, and spurtingwater out of his mouth, while he wriggled and struggledto free himself from the one who had thrown his armsround him. Thoroughly scared by the unexpectedassault which had been made upon him, and deprivedutterly of speech by his sudden immersion in theriver, he yet managed to get rid of the water whichfilled his mouth, and to give vent to a shout, a sub-dued shout, it is true, but one which easily reachedthe ears of the sentry aboard the steamer. Indeed,that individual had already halted on his beat, andwas staring over the side into the Euphrates. Hehad felt the sudden tremor which had gone down thedecks of the steamer as the cable parted, and there. PHILIP HURLED HIMSELF AND HIS CAPTIVE OVER THE RAIL OFTHE VESSEL Geoff and Philip manoeuvre 193 was now a curious movement, a strange bobbing*of the ship, which was so different from her placidstillness of a moment or so earlier that he becamesuspicious, almost alarmed, and it required only thecall of his Commander to cause him to shout at thetop of his voice, to run to the companion-way whichled to the quarters of the crew, and to beat upon itwith the butt of his rifle. In fact, long before Geoffand Philip had accomplished their purpose and com-pleted the capture of the Commander, men were pour-ing up on to the deck of the steamer, shouts werestartling the air, while two or three of the men firedtheir rifles and thus increased the confusion. Geoff leaned over the side of the dinghy, threaten-ing to capsize it, and, placing his lips to the ear ofthe thoroughly startled Turk, spoke to him sternly. *You are a
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