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So, there is no explanation about how they came to arrive just in time. The tramping of many feet brought us up short. I turned to behold the pasha’s palace guard, twenty men armed with swords and rifles, no mercy on their faces. Behind them came the four cavalrymen I’d taught, who looked as grim as the guards.

I was the first human eye to see them for centuries. The thought made me shiver in awe, but also humbled me.

“Ancient thieves,” Brewster rumbled. “Looks like what a bloke might cut toward a cache in a strongroom, say, or the cellar of a rich gent’s estate.”

However, I was now a proper Englishman, a gentleman’s son married to an earl’s daughter. I should be as uncomfortable as possible to show the natives here how superior I was.