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A YOUTH RESERVED FOR STRANGE DESTINIES. 185 sinned that our people were going to renew the chap. engagement, hut also made sure that — because ._ succeeding to Murray, or rather to Murray's suc- cessor — he now at last would be summoned to take a part in the enterprise. He therefore eagerly sought to know what was the duty await- ing him, and addressed his question to Graham, then newly come out of action. Graham an- swered somewhat lightly — in words which im- ported that the engagement had ceased, and that there was nothing for the enquirer to do. There- upon, the young lion was wrought into a phrenzy of disappointment and rage, the rage indeed being so hot that there followed something like an estrangement between the two friends. This allusion it on, ... to his sub- lmpassioned lieutenant or bappers was a soldier sequent . . career. marked out for strange destinies, no other than Gordon — Charles Gordon — then ripening into a hero sublimely careless of self, and a warrior- saint of the kind that Moslems — rather than Christians — are fondly expecting from God. XI. Before daylight, the troops set apart for assault- Troops us- ing the Redan on its eastern flank were collected fau" che.u'ui in those lines of trench-work which, till wrested theeastem from the enemy on the 7th of June, had formed Redan. the counter-approaches established on his left of the ' Quarries ' ; and the same triple wave of a flag that unleashed, as we saw, Campbell's force on the west of the Redan was also the recognised