The column was finished, about to be overrun.The column was finished, about to be overrun. Queen Victoria's finest were meeting defeat at the hands of a horde of desert tribesman, the Barbers. Looking out from under the wagon under which she lay for protection, Ivy could not believe this was happening to her. Just last month, she had left London on a passenger ship bound for Cairo. When the ship experienced engine problems, she, the Duchess of Kensingworth, was transferred to a coal scow. |