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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Halt!" roared Bellairs. The advance-guard kicked up a little shower of sparks, trace-chains slacked with a jingle and the jolting ceased. Bellairs rode up to the advance-guard. "Now, Sergeant," he ordered, "it looks as though that were the Doonha barracks burning over yonder. There's no knowing, though, what it is.
If it's Doonha, it means that the sepoy barracks and all the stores are burning there's nothing else there that would make all that flame!" "There are two companies of the Thirty-third there, too." "Yes, sir, but they're under canvas; tents would blaze up, but they'd die down again in a minute. That fire's steady and growing bigger!" "It's the sepoy barracks, then!" "Seems so to me, sir!"
Colonel Carter unfolded the half-sheet of foreign notepaper and read: Dear Colonel Carter: Your letter just received in which you say that you have blown up the magazine at Doonha and are marching to Hanadra with a view to the rescue of Mrs. Bellairs.
"And yet, if that were a grass-fire, there'd be game and rats and birds and things some of 'em would bolt this way. That's the Doonha barracks burning or I'm a black man, which the Lord forbid!" A minute later, every man in the section pricked up his ears.
He drew off the priest's ring, gave it to her and then, before she could reply: "Canter!" he roared. The horses sprang forward in answer to the spurs and there was nothing for Ruth to do but watch the distant battle and listen to the deep breathing of the Rajputs on either hand. There could be no retreat that day and no thought of it. Jundhra and Doonha were in ruins.
"By listening to the priests' talk while I lay in wait to snare the priestling. Nothing is known as yet as to what the guns or garrison at Doonha do, but it is known that they of Jundhra will march on Hanadra here. They search now for their High Priest, being minded to march out of here and set an ambush on the road." "They have time. From Jundhra to here is a long march!
He could either march to the relief of his detachments or call them in, but under no condition was he to sit still and do nothing. So, Colonel Carter's note addressed to O. C. Jundhra only got two-thirds of the way from Doonha.
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