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I come from one. I had t0_go on my knees almost be- fore I could persuade Anson to let me '!9 Stan. “Nonsmse! Why is one a soldier! I would C‘l‘dSS the infernal regions if the need arose. If I had been in Mee- mt or. that Sunday evening, no gener- al that ever lived could have kept me out of Delhi before daybreak. The way to stop this mutiny was to capture that dcddering old king and hold him as a has . and twenty determined men could ave done 1:668in in the AAâ€"‘__ A. -â€" ” A ____ “He ought to be. I took him from a bunniah when my own fell dead in a village about ten miles in the rear.” Bidding a young bank manager take charge of the detachment, Frank led the newcomer rapidly to headquarter-s. Hodson asked a few questions and made his companion’s blood boil by the unveiled contempt he displayed on hearing of the inaction at Meerut. " â€"'â€"vv-_ “You want Nicholson here,” said 'he, laughing with grim mirth. “By all the gods, he would norsewhip your gen- eral into the saddle.” “About this hour yesterday.” Malcolm knew then that thi spoken cavalier had ridden n‘ hundred miles through an 6 country in twenty-four hours. “Is your ho§seié§ual t hour’s camper?” he inquired. 11-- “Yes. Afid you?""said Malcolm, try- ing to conceal his amazement at this apparition. “I am Lieutenant Hodson of the lst Bengal Fusiliers. I have ridden from Kurnaul. where the Commander-in- Chief is waiting until communication is opened with Meerut. Where is Gen- eral Hewitt?” start ?” “I will take you to him? From Kur- naul. did you say? When did you 5§n “4- 9” “Are you fmm Meerut?” he asked, his _voice and manner conveying a curious blend of brusqueness and gen- tility, as his tired horse willingly pull- ed up alongside Nejdi. The little cayaltade was returning slowly to the station when one of the troopers caught the hoof beats of a galloping horse behind them. Mal- colm reined up, and soon a British officer appeared round a bend in the road. Mounted on a hardy country- bred, and wcaring the semi-native uni- form of the Company’s regiments, the aspect of the stranger was sufficiently remarkable to attract attention apart from the fact that he came absolutely alone from a quarter where it was escort. He was tall and spare of build. with reddish brown hair and heard, blue eyes that gleamed with the cold fire of steel, close set lies, firm chin. and the slightly-hooked nose with thin nostri's that seems to be one of nature’s tokens of the man born to command his fellows when the strong arm and clear brain are needed in the battle-field. He lode easily, with a loose rein, and he was» ed his disengaged hand the instant he ca. :ght sight of the white {aces On the 21st of May, eleven days af- ter the outbreak of the Mutiny, thorgh never a dragoon or horse gunner had left \Ieerut cantonment since they marched baa k to their quarters from the exer-memorable biv,ouac Malcolm led his light horsemen north, along the Grand Trunk Road in the direction of Mazuffernugger. A native brought news that a collec- tor and his wife were hiding in a swamp near the road. Happily, in this insta 99, the two were rescued, more dc ad than alive. The man. ruler of a territory as big as the NTI‘th Riding of Yorkshire. his wife, a young and well-born Englishwoman, were in the last stage of misery. The unhappy lady. half demented, ‘Was nursing a dead baby When the child was taken from her she fell unconscious and had to be carried to Meerut on a rough litter. In each case the tiny detachment discovered blackened walls and un- buried corpses. The Meerut district abounded with Gocjers, the hereditary thieves of India, and these untamed savages had lost none of their Wild- beast ferocity under fifty years of British rule. They killed and robbed with an impartiality that was worthy of a better cause. When Europeans, native travelers and mails were swept out of existence they fought each other. Village boundaries which had been determined under ’Wellesley’s strong government at the beginning of the century were reâ€"arranged now with matchlock, spear and tulwar. Old feuds were settled in the old way and six inches of steel were more potent than the longest Order in Coun- cil. Yet thse ghouls fled at the sight of the smallest white force, and Mal- colm and his irregulars rode unop- posed through a blood-sfained and de- serted land. UHAHTBxiv. On. t";- W’zv to Cawnpore it; 1'? 1' t '.'-"-:“ed that blessed “5°” :31: "-‘ fanni a. otherwise no 1 1: as the British bu? ld. g. But the litlldOg was kept on the chain and ' 21..e obtained only within his ken- rel Ma‘colm deprived of his regi- 1e111. gathered under h: 5 command a 'e\\' v01.115, ci iiians who were eager to act as gvolunteer cava.ry, and was given a grudging permission to ride -17t to the isolated bungalows of some indigo planters, on the chance that the occunaws might have defended them- selves successfully against the rioters. WE} ‘(EAR THE (hayright by McLeod .93 Al! Czar} of at: inCian Mutiny LOUIS TRACY horse- equ_a1 to another ridden nearly a {h an enemy’s this curt- A woman came running from a neighbor’s house. While giving him the charcoal she hastily closed the rude door. She pretended not to un- derstand him when he sought an ex- planation of the armor, whereupon he seized her. and led her,_ shrieking, among his Own men. The commotion brought other villagers on the scene. as he guessed it wouuld. A few fierc: threats. backed by a liberal display of naked steel. quickly evoked the cur-"ous fact that nearly all the able-bodied in» habitants “had gone to see the sahihâ€" log dance.” Malcolm drew a negative comfort from the moullah’s tale. That night he encamped near a fair-sized village which was ominously denuded of men. Approaching a native but to ask for a piece of charcoal wherethh to light a cigar, he happened to look inslde. To his very great surprise he saw, standing in a corner, a complete suit of European armor, made of tin, it is true, but a sufficientely bewildering “find” in a Goojer hovel. The king’s hunting lodge was empty, he whined; and the Roshinara Begum had gone to Delhi. Nana Sahib‘s cav- alcade went south soon after the Be- gum’s departure, .and a moullah had told him, the headman, that the Nana had hastened through Aligarh on his way to Cawnpore, not turning aside to visit Agra, which was fifty miles down the Bombay branch of the Grand Trunk Road. He called the first halt in the village where he had parted from Winifred. The headman professed himself un- able to give any information, but the application of a stirrup leather to his bare back While his wrists were tied to a cart Wheel soon loosened his tongue. CO] He went to his tent to supervise the packing of his few belongings. His bearer, a Punjabi Mohammedan, who cursed the sepoys fluently for disturb- ing the country during the hot wea- ther, handed him a note which had been brought by a camp follower. Yet Winifred and her uncle had pass;d through that town on the road to Cawnpore. Aligarh, too, was in flames, said Reid, and there was no communication open with Agra, the seat of Government for the North- West Provinces. There was a bare possibility that the Maynes might have reached Agra, or that Nana Sahib had protected them for his own sake. Such slender hopes brought no com- fort. Black despair sat in Malcolms heart until the Brigad er sent for him and ordered him to take charge of the guard that would escort the records and treasure from Meerut to Agra. H: hailed this dangerous mission with gloomy joy. Love had no place in a soldier’s life, he told himself. Hence- forth he must remember Winifred only when his sword was at the throat of some wretched mutineer appealing for mercy. Exhausted by two days’ strenuous warfare in the burning sun, they con (i not take up the pursuit. The men were resting on the field when a bat- talion of Gheorkahs, the little fighting men of Nepaul, arrived under the command of Colonel Reid They had marched by way of Bulandshahr, and Malcolm heard to his dismay that the native infantry detachment stationed there aided by the whole population of the district, had committed the wildest excesses. That was William Hodson’s way. Men who met him began by disliking his ,hectoring, supercilious bearing. They soon learnt to forget his gruff- ness and think only of his gallantry and good-comradeship. Next morning, Whit-Sunday, while the chaplains were conducting the burial service over those who had fallen, the mutineers came out of Del- hi again. A severe action began in- stantly. Tombs had two horses shct under him, and thirteen out of fifty men in his battery were killed or wounded. But the issue was never in doubt. After three hours’ hard fight- ing the rebels broke and fled. So those men in Mcerut could give a good account of themselves when permit- ted! Actually, they won the first two battles of the calmiaign. A company of the 60th Rifles dashcd forward to seize the bridge, Lieutenant Light and his men tool; up the enemy’s challenge with their heavy eighteen- pounders, and Lolonel Maekenzie and Major Tombs, at the head of two bat- teries of horse artillery, crossed the river and turrned the left flank of the sepoy force. Then the Rifles extend- ed and charged, the mutineers yielded, and Colonel Custance with his dra- goons sabred them mercilessly for some miles. At any rate his stirring advice and the dispatches he brought roused the Anilitary authorities at Meerut into activity. Carrying with him a letter .0 the Commander-in-Chief he quitttd ‘Jeerut again that night, and dis- mounted outside Anson’s tent at Kur- aul at dawn on the second day! On‘the 27 th, Archdale Wilszn led the arrisou towards the rendezvous fixed n h: the force hurriedly collected in :c Pl 1‘ij for the rel ef of Delhi. On lie a’ternton of the 301h, cavalry ve ottt-‘s rtnm'ted the presence of a smozsg oooy or It‘lltTZG-ZI'S on the rl‘gn 3_.;.nk of tlz. ri or Hindun, near th xif‘age of C axi- d-"Fizi Nuggar and a a. vclrr a ': 31 r (13.4.3 commander ;.1 iron series-13.; brd It has Lound afterwards that the rebels meant to fight the two British forces in detail before they could effect a junction. The generalship of the idea was good, but the sepoys did not count on the pent-up wrath of the British soldiers, who were burning to avenge their murdered countrymen and dis- honored countrywomen, for it was now Lecoming known that many a fair inglish lady had met a fate worse than death ere sword or bullet stilled Lier anguish. THE DURHAM CH. RONICLE vâ€"v v-v-Mbv . It was his prudent habit to halt in man villages only. Towns might be traversed quickly without much risk, I! even the tiniest display of force in- lured safety, but it was Wise not to permit the size of his escort to "be noted at leisure, When a surprise at- tack might. be rttac’o in the; ~ Therein-rag. i"'.‘.}j-(3(tivy~r to ~. . Cawnpm‘e car?»- ‘"‘3Xt day. be elected not to pus} can to '33th02‘ pOsed ti) 3.35.5; pg. mm.“ branches of a :12"; at final tree. (,huzr- to, his “Bahamian: -- J: good c0011, in acdid 'other a«:qv2re:m;-zcis .{avinn I‘m?- chased C1“ “‘11.; {fig mr . a ‘ . . a...dstel‘ pay for winch IS not RIWRVS the mail, 21 Email kid (by w .~ 11 please, understand a mena Mun-~.v_ . . .1‘ ' With a small escort of six tr00pers, his servant. and two pack-horses, he travelled fast. As night was falling on June 4th, he re-entered the Grand Trunk Road some three miles north of Bithoor, where, all unknown to him, Nlana Sahib’s splendid palace This curious sequence of events led to Malcolm’s following . Winifred Maeyne along the road she had taken exactly three weeks earlier. The route to Cawnpore lay through Etawah, a place where revolt had already broken out, but which had been evacuated by the mutineers, who, like those at Ali- garb, Bulandshahr, Mainpuri, Meerut, and a score of other towns, ran off to Delhi after butchering all the Euro- peanswithin range. Such a man was sure to regard Mal- colm’s bold journey from the wrong point of view. So delighted was he that he gave the sowars two months’ pay, lauded Malcolm in the Gazette, and forthwith despatched him on a special mission to General Sir Hugh Wheeler at Cawnpore, to whom he recommended Frank for promotion md appointment as aide-de-camp. The fact that a young subaltern had brought a convoy from Meerut was seized on by the weak and amiable John Colvin, Lieutenant Governor of the Northâ€"West Provinces, as a con- vincing proof of his theory that the bulk of the native army might be trusted, and that order would soon be restored. Each day he was sending serenely confident telegrams to Cal- cutta and receiving equally reassuring ones from a fatuous Viceroy. It was with the utmost difficulty that his wiser subordinates got him to disarm the sepoy regiments in Afra itself. He vehemently assured the Viceroy that the worst days of the outbreak were over and issued a proclamation offefi ing forgiveness to all mutineers who gave up their arms, “except those who had instigated others to revolt, or had taken part in the murder of Euro- peans!’ There were three or four such af- fairs ere they reached Agra, and his Frenchmen proved themselves to be soldiers as well as acrobats. 0n the evening of the 2nd of June he marched his cavalcade into the splendid for- tress immortalized by its marble me- morials of the great days of the Mogul Bmpire. He brightened up so thoroughly that be quite enjoyed a sharp fight next day when the budmashes of Buland- shahr regarded the straggling convoy as an easy prey. Here then, was really good news. Like every other Engl7shman in India Malcolm believed that the Mutiny was confined to a very small area of which his own station was the center. He thought that if Winifred and her uncle reached Cawnpore they would be quite safe. The nuns. be ascertained. were com- ing from Fategarh to Umbal‘a and they had met the great retinue of Nana Sahib below Aligarh. With him were two Europeans, a young lady and an elderly gentleman, but they wcre travellino so rapidly that it was im- possible ts learn who they were or whither they were going. Malcolm brought thzm to the vil- lage and caused it to be made known that unless every article of value and every rupee in money stolen from these unfortunate people, together with a he avy fine, were brought to him by day break, he would not only fire each but and destroy the standing crops, but he would also hang every adult male belonging to the place he could lay hands on. These hereditary thieves could ap- preciate a man who spoke like that. They met him fairly and paid in full. When the convoy moved off, even that amazing; suit of armor, which was used for the state entry of the circus into a town, was strapped on to the back of a trick pdny. He and his men dashed in among the audience and the Gooj: rs ran for dear life when they caught sight of a sahib at the head of an armed party. The performers and the nuns nearly died of fright, believing that their last hour had surely come. But they soon recovered from their fear only to col- lapse more completely frpm joy. A French circus, it appeared, had camp- ed near a party of nuns in the village on the main road, and were captured there when the news came that the English were swept out of existence. Most fortunately for themselves the nuns were regarded as a part of the show, and the villagers, after robbing all of them. penned them in the mosque and made them give a nightly performance. There were five men and three women in th circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent. saber flourishing led to 'a‘ direCt'state- ment that the white people who were to “dance” had been captured near the village quite a week earlier and " im- prisoned in a mined tomb about a mile from the road. It was risky work to leave the valuable convoy for an in- stant, but Malcolm felt that he must _>robe this mystery. Taking half a clozen men with him, and compelling the woman to act as guide, he went to he tomb in the dark. The building a mosque-like structure f considerable size, was sitxated in he midst of a grove of mango trees. A fun space in front of the tfmb was glued with oil 'an1;s and b titres. t was nae? d w t‘:1 uproar ous natives, '“r‘ ‘2 (‘20!!! s n W isled grze tested -. .- v2.1 sin<v§vr~ r’n‘ f" W3 3 *"10 o ;iz-‘s, ‘1".‘aa'irg tl‘e concutional gauze and spam; -3 of circus riders, wer. atanding mar a couple of piebald ponies. 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