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The Dash for Khartoum
G. A. Henty
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When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid returns, intent on using the boys to get money. When the boy she chooses first refuses to help and instead runs away, his adopted family is willing to do everything they can to rescue him. But will it be enough when war threatens in the Sudan--the runaway's destination?
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid returns, intent on using the boys to get money. When the boy she chooses first refuses to help and instead runs away, his adopted family is willing to do everything they can to rescue him. But will it be enough when war threatens in the Sudan--the runaway's destination?
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The others were silent. Then Mrs. Clinton said, "You know, Percy, I do not wish to prove that one more than the other of the boys is ours; but naturally the woman would wish to benefit her own boy, and if it had been her own boy[Pg 69] who had the mark, why should she not have told Edgar that she had made a mistake, and that it was Rupert who was her son?"
"I do not suppose, Lucy, that she cared in the slightest which was her son; her main object, of course, w. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
An unbelievable adventure of intrigue, excitement, and folly. From start to finish a great read!
As always an exciting, never at all low in adventure from my perspective. An intriguing story of families members torn apart from a heartfelt lie, for financial reward. The adventure begins in old England
Henty was a prolific (to say the least!) author of Victorian adventure stories for boys, often based on historical events. To read them today, you have to be prepared for stilted dialogue, potentially confusing references to cricket, and a fair amount of political incorrectness.
Another of Henty's historical novels in which the juvenile hero grows to maturity, faces adversity, encounters real-life heroes (in this case Gen. Kitchener), and in the end wins renown - and the girl.