As the four officers are ordered to Egyptian service, Clements, afraid to face danger, resigns his commission, receives three white. feathers from his friends and plucks another from the white plume of Miss Duprez when she fails to understand. Then, to prove himself a man, he goes to Egypt, permits himself to be branded as a native mute, and seeks Kitchener's army.
Meanwhile, Richardson, leading a decoy company, goes blind when he suffers sunstroke, and when his men are slaughtered, with Allen and Grey taken prisoner, Clemens saves his life He seeks out the two prisoners im.the stronghold of the Mahdi, organizes a revol& and at the height of the battle with Kitchener's forces, captures the arsenal and aids the rout of the natives. Thus are the three
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