Are all men in disguise except those crying?
Are all men in disguise except those crying?Dannie Abse
The sun hammered onto the riverside at Cairo, with Jack watching a couple of Highlanders ride past, each man precariously balanced on a donkey’s back. As their kilts ballooned up behind them, Jack smiled to think what Mary would have said, then looked up as a man strode towards him dressed in the uniform of a senior Egyptian officer.
“So you’re coming with me, Windrush?” Valentine Baker, in charge of the Egyptian Gendarmerie, was an experienced soldier. He had fought in the Cape Frontier and Crimean wars and commanded the 10th Hussars for thirteen years. After travelling extensively in Asia, Baker seemed destined for higher command until he sexually assaulted a young woman in a railway c
