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Updated: May 7, 2025
"That's my artfulness, my dear Hal. We can't hope to slip away unnoticed, I grant you. But I do believe we can take 'em by surprise, and walk out before they can combine to stop us. We have the guns, and the hotties, which would be useful in breaking a path, and those two facts may even induce them to let us go without a fuss.
"Rukn-ud-din and the hotties are halted till you come up, for fear the enemy should be waiting for them at the other end of the defile. I'll retreat upon you gradually, and keep these beggars back." "All right!" and Gerrard and his men, now on more open ground, were able to urge their horses to something beyond a walk.
Here's your problem, then, my budding Wellington. Do we fight our way through by the ordinary track in view of the condition of our guns I omit the alternative of shelling the enemy out of their hiding-places first or do we take up position with the guns before the mouth of the defile and make a feint there, while the hotties are going round the other way?
You go first, with your own Granthis, whom you have well in hand, I suppose? at any rate, they won't fire unless you give the word. Then Rukn-ud-din, with the guns and hotties and incidentally the women and then your humble servant with the Darwanis.
Among the hotties I am taking with me for purposes of display, I have included old Pertaub Sing's trained hunter, so we ought to see some sport. By the bye, when is your appeal for my help coming? Just wait till this little business is off my hands, and I'll be with you in a jiffey."
I got two or three more blows as I lay on the ground, but one of our horsemen dragged me to my feet. I saw that Sher Sing's hotties had turned tail and were in full retreat, but it did not occur to me he was leaving us to our fate until his horsemen charged back through the crowd and made straight for Cowper.
Otherwise I should have proposed spiking the guns, which are in a state of rottenness calculated to do more harm to us than to the enemy, and leaving the hotties, taking the women behind us on our horses. But if by making an awe-inspiring impression we can get away without a fight, it's just as well under the circumstances especially as the Rani has promised us our fill of gore later on.
Sher Singh's fellows are in occupation of the bad bit, as I suspected posted on both sides of the track. But and here comes in the possibility of strategy there's another path besides that one, and I told my scouts to investigate its practicability. They report that it's passable for hotties, which is what I was inclined to doubt, but they don't think we shall ever get the guns up there.
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