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Updated: May 22, 2025
If we have to raze Jailpore to the ground, and put every man in it to the sword before we find the four Europeans supposed to be left alive there, our duty is none the less obvious! Here comes my column. Tell the men to be ready to march in ten minutes." He turned his horse, to look through the dust at the approaching column, but the man who had been superseded touched him on the sleeve.
They have done the harm, and they are in charge there. They have the powder-magazine in their possession, and the stands of arms, and the first advantage. Leave them there, then, sahib, and strike where you are not expected. In Jailpore you would be out of touch.
But Brown knew practically nothing, and understood still less, of what was happening. He had Juggut Khan's word for it that Jailpore was in flames, and that all save four of its European population had been killed. He believed that to be a probably exaggerated statement of affairs, but he did not blink the fact that he might expect to be overwhelmed almost without notice, and at any minute.
"Yes, sir!" "You lie! He was blown up on the roof of the powder-magazine! I suppose every man who's gone mad from the heat will be saying that he's Brown!" "I'm Brown, sir! I had written orders from General Baines to enter Jailpore and rescue three women and a child." "Where are your orders?" "Lost 'em, sir, in the explosion." "For a madman, you're a circumstantial liar!
Hell screamed with the cooking of red mutiny, and throbbed with the thunder of the sacred temple-drums. And that was only one of the hells, and a small one. India glowed red that night from end to end! Juggut Khan, free-lance Rajput and gentleman of fortune, had ridden out of that caldron of Jailpore.
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