They would be cut off for a
dead certainty. The two other alternatives were to make off to the right
or to go straight back up the gully.
But going to the right meant that they would have to climb the right-hand
wall of the gully, which was much steeper and higher than that to the
left. The result would be that they would be exposed against the sky line
to the enemy's fire.
All this flashed through his mind in a couple of seconds, and he instantly
took his decision.
'We must go back up the gully, Roy,' he said sharply. 'It's absolutely our
only chance.'
'Any way, so long as we don't drop into the clutches of that swine Kemp,'
said Roy. 'I fancy I see him giving us any parole.'
He whipped round as he spoke, and the two set to running steadily up the
gully. As they passed the scene of their late encounter where the bodies
of the dead Turks lay by the broken machine gun, Ken stooped quickly and
picked up one of their rifles, and helped himself also to a bandolier of
cartridges.
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