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The Gordon cult which had lingered on since 1885,
experienced a sudden revival, There wary an imposing
burial service for Gordon at Khartoumf which had been
in Mahdist hands since 1880
ß, V1, Steevona, a war correspondent, expressed the
prevailing mood in his account of the campaign which
ran through fourteen editions in 1898-9t - "And here too
were boys who could hardly lisp when their mothers told
then that Gordon was dead, grown up now and appearing
in the fulneai of time to exact 11,, 000 lives for one.
Gordon may diel - other Cordons may die in the future,
but the came clean. -limbed
theme"
(1)
hood will grow up and avenge
At the Empire music hall shortly after than victory, a
portrait of Gordon wren-shown on the ntago to "tumultuous
Applause"$
(2) and at Gatti's music hall a sketch told
0. »4 the history of Gordon and the vengeance which
overtook his murder. orc, " It went on ".. na-one is
surprised when the figure of the Martyr of Khartoum
ur. w. rrwý ririrrrrrr rýrrirrrrrwnr. r(1)
G W, Zteevena, With Kitchone. * to Khnrtoum, Edinburgh &
London 1898, p. 311"
(2) Fall Hall Gazette, 10th September 1698.