The Mahdi will be expecting you to try to win through to the city. Mingled withall the other smells of the besieged city the stench of rottinghorseflesh was sulphurous. Penrod came to his feet with surprise and al-Noor removed the rope fromround his neck. She laughed.
Ryder wiped his hands on a ball of cotton waste,then glanced through the note. It was somemoments before she realized that he had shed his jibba and was nownaked. One of theother deeper and more significant indications was in his behaviour: thebrutal excesses of inhumanity. He has taken her to the quarters of theMahdi.
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