teen wounded, while of the whites an officer and eighteen men were killed and sixteen wounded; nine of the former having fallen in the bayonet struggle with the Sepoys. N

had to face more than double the number that we expected. Our cas

nd go round and count the numbe

we shall hear what the cava

enemy killed, the rest escaped into the jungle. On

ur plans were disarranged by finding them in such unexpected strength. Had we been able to thrash them by ourselves,

nt present

"and I reckon there are another 20 or 30 killed

ly close; upwards o

e men to work making stret

side the village for the killed, and a small one apart for Mr. Anstruther? P

provisions. We have got bread, but lay hands on any fowls

mpty house, and fires were soon burning, an abundance of fowl and

village. They were drawn up round the graves, and the bodies were laid reverently in them. Captain Mallett said a few words over them; the earth was then shovelled in and levelled,

r was highly spoken of in the Brigadier's report to the Commander in Chief. Shortly afterwards Mallett's nam

awnpore for the final operation against Lucknow, and on the 3rd of March reached the Commander in Chief

hut. On the 9th, Sir Colin Campbell captured the Martiniere with trifling loss. On the 11th General Outram pushed his advance as far as the iron bridge, and established batteries commanding the passage of the stone brid

Imambarra when a shot brought him to the ground. When he recovered his senses he found himself in a

happened?"

d a very close shave of it, indeed; but

hit? I don't

e to turn your head for some time, you will be none the worse for it. An inch further to the right, or an inch lower or higher, and it would have been fatal. It was

any, doctor. The men get so excited that they blaze away anyhow, and in the smoke are just as likel

nd I don't suppose that you had lain many min

aken the I

rushed into the Kaiser Bagh at the heels of

anticipated desperate fig

you out of your share in the loot. We have always he

ment there for an hour or two. As for me, I care nothing about the loot. There are plent

or shook

n ourselves, I have let Ferguson slip away

e any w

t first looked bad, I got some of the stretcher men with me to burst open the door of this house and established a dozen temporary beds here. As you see, there are only f

hospital orderlies in here and be off myself to the h

he doctor returne

ask of brandy, and he will find you water somewhere. There is nothing to be

ater Marsha

me that he had seen you fall at the beginning of the fight, and I got leave from the Colonel to look for you. At the hospital, no one seemed to know anything about you, but I luck

for I expect that I shall have to go about with a stiff neck for some weeks to come, and it

re wounded-Parkinson, they say, seriously. We have twenty-two rank and

shall?" Mallett said, with a

t his pockets stuffed with gold coins. There were chests and chests full. They did not bother about the jewels-I thin

Marshall. Don't let it slip

ur agent to sell, and have the money put by for purchasing my

e men want looking after, and the Pandies may make an effort to drive us out of the Kaiser B

ith the regiment again. Many of his fellow officers dropped in from time to time for a short chat, but the duty was heavy. All open resistance had ceased, but the troops were engaged in searching the houses, and turning out all rough characters who had made Lucknow their centre, and had no visible me

longs to your company, but as he only came out with the last draft, and was transferred only on the day that the fighting be

don't remember at present where I came ac

od. I shall send you up this afternoon to the hospital just established in the park of the Dil Koosha. We shall get you all out as soon

an badly h

ble that he may not live another twenty-four hours. Of course, he may take

me for you, doctor," Mallet

and then I could not keep up any longer. Of course, it has been the same with us all, and the heat has made it very trying. I am parti

ur man in the corn

n. His face was drawn and pinched, his eyes sunken in his head

w me, Capta

d familiar to me. Very likely I should have recognised you if I had met you a week

f Farmer Lechme

y you are Lechmere's eldest son, George!

d, sternly. "Your vill

hat cost him so violent a twinge in his woun

. "I am conscious of having done no wrong to you or yours. I saw your father and

h. Do you know, Captain Mallet

te affairs of my tenants, but I remember her, of course, and I was grieved to learn by

imself on his elbow, and fixing a look of such deadly hatred

I known that you were going that night, I would have followed you and killed you, and saved her. The next morning you were both gone. I waited a time and then went to the depot of your regiment and enli

turned and levelled his piece at me. Mine was loaded, and I could have shot him down as he turned, but I stood and let him have his shot. When I found myself here I was sorry that he had not finished me at once, but when I hea

him: the sudden agony of his wound and his astonishment at this strange accusation had

as, looking up from a patient over whom he was bending a short distance away, hi

some brandy and

few minutes. Then, when he saw the surgeon at the other en

that you are altogether wrong. From the moment that I got into my dog cart at Bennett's I never saw Martha

ome out there you would put her in charge of someone until you could marry her. You told her that she could not stay where she was long, and I knew what that meant. I suppose

rd Calcutta or India

ew that you were going in a day or two, and that was

all chatting together until we came out. She came to the trap with me while they stood at the open window. It was not

e fancies in his head as you do, no ma

ever has happened to this poor girl, I, at least, am wholly innocent of it. But should you not get over this hurt, I should not like you to go to your grave believing that I had done you this great wrong. I speak to you as to a dying man, a

t we shall; but if not, I give you my full forgiveness for that shot you fired at me. It was the result of a

d over yourself, and now there is this man lying insensible. So for goodness' sake get off to your room again, and lie

nge accusation and had so nearly taken his life was really sane, and whether he had not altogether imagined the conversation which he declared he had heard in the garden. He re

do so might well, when his brain was on fire, conjure up this imaginary conversation. Still, he might have heard some man talking t

best judge of cattle in the neighbourhood, and a thoroughly steady fellow, but

o the new one outside the town. When the doctor came in before they were m

what he said to you or you to him, and I don't want to know; but he seems to have got something off his mind. He is less feverish t

air seemed deliciously cool and fresh, and there was a feeling of quiet and restfulness that was impossible in

that he had now hopes that the soldi

one against him," he said, "b

t for service

ms on a long day's march. It is hot enough now, but we have not got to the worst by a long way, and as t

I shall be able to g

will be healed so that you will be capable of ordinary duty, but certainly not long marches. If

y of the rebels who had escaped from Lucknow had now established themselves. Unfortunately, the extent of the city and the necessity for the employment of a large proportion of the British force in the actual assault, had preve

n interview with George Lechm

are still greatly changed, but you are getting back your old expression, and I hope that i

you got that wound, not even to the doctor; for if you had done so there is not a man in hospital who would have spoken to me. But how could I join the regiment again? k

t was a mad act, and I believe y

t that it was you, and now I see plainly enough that except what the man said about going away-and anyone might have said that–

and bitter against it, but as I have been lying here I have come to see that I brought their suspicions upon myself

it was natural for her to take her pleasure, which was harmless enough if I had not made a grievance of it. If I had not driven her from me she woul

ed to climb the wall. She must have recognised my voice, and, knowing that I had her secret, feared that I might kill her and

as most people there do

a moment. She went straight away with

Bible says, 'Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord,' and

I was fool enough to think that I could av

he work of punishing men who have committed the most atrocious crimes. There is the work of winning back India f

I was responsible for that poor girl's flight. I shall never mention it to a soul. I have already put it out of my mind, therefore it is as if it had never been done, and there is no re

od, sir, altoge

nd let that Sepoy shoot you; so that all the pain that you have been going through, and may still have to go through before you are quite cured, is a punishment that you have yourself ac

aiser Bagh. If you like, when you rejoin, I shall apply for you in his stead. It will make your wor

burst in

sider it settled, and I shall look out for you in a couple of months, so get well as quick as you can, and don't worry you

waiting for any reply, he