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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Nothing, Sahib; I am very happy in the service of the Queen, and I feel it an honour to serve in the Guides." "Well, then, why look so doleful? One would think you had lost your best horse, or broken the sword of your ancestors on the head of a buffalo," laughed Jenkins. "The truth cannot be hidden from you, Sahib, so I will tell it," ingenuously replied Bahaud-din Khan.
It was only when the war was over, and the corps was nearing India on its downward march, that Bahaud-din Khan began to lose his reckless devil-may-care bearing; he seemed sad, and dispirited, and out of sorts altogether. "Why, what ails you, my man?" said Jenkins one day as he chanced across him on the march.
And so, very near the same spot where he had taken service on the field of battle, Bahaud-din Khan quietly took his discharge, and rode off, like a knight of old, to place his sword at the service of any who wanted it. "But riding-school, God forbid!" he muttered as he went.
"I am Bahaud-din Khan," replied the horseman, "and I come from Ali Musjid, which the Feringhis have taken, and I follow those sons of pigs, the Kasilbash Horse, who you saw pass in such a hurry just now." "The Sahib says," shouted the orderly, "that surely you must be mad thus to walk your horse through a heavy fire like that."
"Yes, I will," said the free-lance without a moment's hesitation. So there and then, on the field of battle, Bahaud-din Khan, late of the Kasilbash Horse, joined the Guides, and was made a non-commissioned officer on the spot. For two long years, through the many ups and downs of the campaign, through much severe fighting and many a hardship, he did good and valiant service.
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