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Updated: May 21, 2025
The next command north? Harumpore? Then why is there no news from Harumpore? I will tell you, sahib." "You mean, I suppose, that the country is up, in between?" "You know that it is up, sahib!" "You think that no message could get through to me?" "I know that it could not! Else had one already come.
There were others who declared that he would leave Bholat and Jailpore to their fates without any doubt at all, and would march to join hands with the nearest contingent, at Harumpore. The bolder spirits of this latter faction were for setting off at once to prevent this combination. For a little while their arguments almost prevailed.
Bill Brown's voice boomed through the opening in the dome, and spread down the walls of the powder-magazine as though in the inside of a speaking-trumpet. "Brown sahib?" "The army has got here from the north! It has come down here from Harumpore! It's outside the walls now, lying on its arms, and evidently waiting to attack at daylight!" "I, too, have news, Brown sahib! All four are living!
"Your nine, then, sahib, and you and I are to proceed immediately to Jailpore, and to gain an entrance if we can, rescue those whom I concealed there and bring them to Harumpore, or to the northward of Harumpore, wherever we can find the column." "Eleven men are to attempt that?"
Swoop down on Harumpore, sahib join there with Kendrick sahib's command. There make a fresh plan, and swoop down on some other place. But move, quickly, and keep on moving! And waste no time on places that are already lost." "Then you would have me leave those women and that child, that you tell me of to their fate?" "Nay, sahib! I am not of your command.
And if you should get through alive I'll pay you the compliment of admitting that you won't come through without the women, and I know that Brown won't if you should have luck, and should happen to get through, why, look for me at Harumpore, or elsewhere to the northward of it. I start with my division in an hour." "Salaam, sahib!" said Rajput, rising and standing at the salute.
And he marched with them, in among them, and ate what the cook brought him, without a thought but for the best interests of the government he served. So they buried General Baines some eighty-and-twenty miles from Harumpore, and shot the cook. And, according to the easy Indian theology, the cook was wafted off to paradise, while General Baines betook himself to hell, or was betaken.
But the column, three thousand perspiring Britons strong, continued marching, loaded down with haversacks and ammunition and resolve. It was met, long before the jackals had dug down to General Baines' remains, by the advance-guard of Colonel Kendrick's column, which was coming out of Harumpore because things were not brisk enough in that place to keep it busy.
But General Baines felt perfectly at ease about his food. He never gave a thought to it, but ate what was brought to him, sitting his horse most likely, and chewing something as he rode among the men, and saw that they filled their bellies properly. He had made up his mind to march on Harumpore, and to take over the five-hundred-strong contingent there.
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