Told in the East

that had a bearing on the Mutiny, there are plenty of club-armchair critics who maintain that England

mutineers. All that either side recognized as likely to reverse conditions was the notorious ability that a beaten and cornered British army has for upse

ance, in

They believed them fully capable of rousing the countryside, of working on the religious feelings of the unsophisticated rustics and setting them to murdering and plundering right and left. But they doubted their ability to judge of the army's s

nd elsewhere. There was no need, these maintained, to march and join hands with other rebel

ome hotfoot to find the four we could not find. For these British are as cobras; slay the he cobra and the she one comes to

f Jailpore marched, to join hands with the Bholatis-who were surely in revolt by this time. There were others who declared that he would l

setting off at once to prevent this combination.

ore numerous one, insisted it were bes

why run unnecessary risks, before th

find and rescue them. But if we find and slay them, and send their heads to Bholat, then will the English know that

surely had not passed out through any of the gates, and who were therefore just as surely in the city. A reward was offered by the committee of rebel-leaders and,

er-magazine had ever been opened, or ever could be opened. The magazine had been a white man's watch. White men had kept g

trail, the three women and the child lay still beneath the piled-up powder, and doled out water, and biscuit in siege-time measures. They lay in pitch-darkness, in a vault where not even a sound

ow, for doubtless the vaults led somewhere. But for their fear of snakes and rats and unknown horrors, they would have tried to find a way through the vault

went away again, and then all was still. Soon they lost all count of time

enial, the worst educated and least enlightened of the three, according to the others'

she kept on grumbling

at she could see Bill's face, as she remembered it-