66 EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN.

Zebehr. Your name is known everywhere. You have been writing against mc in the papers and in your books. Produce the letter.

Gordon. Ask the khedive, your master, for it. I had fifty copies of the trial printed, giving the whole history, and containing that letter.

Zebehr. Why did you print it?

Gordon. Because I wanted to show the peoples of Soudan that I was fighting, not about the slave-trade, but against rebels, and to settle who was to govern the Soudan.

Zebehr. My son met you at Darra with 4000 men, and you refused his help.

Gordon. That is not the question.

Zebehr. But my property was seized eight months before you found that letter.

Gordon. Yes, but even before I found that letter, I had had enough evidence to prove that you had been inciting your son to rebel.

ZcbcJir. Produce the letter.

Gordon. Well, there! That ends that business. Zebehr says that if the letter is found I am justified.

Zebehr, My son sent you nine emissaries from Darra; you shot them. He sent two more, and you shot them also.

Gordon. Then you have finished with the question of the letter. Now I will ask you if your son Suleiman did not kill the whole of the black garrison in the Bahr Gazelle?

Zebehr. My son came to you at Darra, and offered you 4000 men. He — Gordon. That does not matter. Answer my question. During my absence from the Soudan, while I was at Aden — never mind where — did not your son Suleiman kill 200 black troops?

ZebcJir. When you were governor-general I told my son to obey you — Gordon. Did your son kill those 200 Egyptian soldiers?

ZebcJir. My son offered these troops, 4000 men, to you, and you refused, and you dismissed — Gordon. Did your son kill those 200 men? That is the point.

ZcbcJir. It was not my fault. You recommended my son to the khedive, who made him a colonel, and after that — Gordon. Answer my question. [Nubar Pasha repeats question to Zebehr.] Nnbar Pasha. Zebehr says that his son was no longer under his influence, but under the orders of Gordon Pasha. While under his father, Suleiman did no such things, but while under Gordon Pasha he could not answer for him.

Gordon. T want an answer to my question. (Repeated.)