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Updated: June 29, 2025
"What is that red glow on the skyline over yonder?" "A burning, heavenborn!" "A burning? What burning? Funeral pyres? It's very big for funeral pyres!" "Nay, heavenborn!" "What, then?" She was still unfrightened, unsuspicious of the untoward. The Risaldar's arrival on the scene had quite restored her confidence and she felt content to ride with him to Jundhra on the morrow.
They turned to cheer the explosion and then settled down to march in deadly earnest and, if need be, to fight a rear-guard action all the way. And in the opposite direction one solitary gunner rode, hell-bent-for-leather, with a note addressed to "O. C. Jundhra." It was short and to the point. It ran: Have blown up magazine; Mrs. Bellairs at Hanadra; have gone to rescue her.
We are cut off from support, but now that the guns are here to help us, we could either hold out here until relieved or else fight our way into Jundhra, where I have no doubt we are very badly needed. But" he spoke more slowly and distinctly now, with a distinct pause between each word "there is an officer's lady alone, and practically unprotected at Hanadra. Our duty is clear.
Down below them they could see the city gate, wide open, with a blazing torch on either side of it, and through the gate, swarming like ants before the rains, there poured an endless stream of humans that marched and marched and marched; four, ten, fifteen abreast; all heights and sizes, jumbled in and out among one another, anyhow, without formation, but armed, every one of them, and all intent on marching to the southward, where Jundhra and Doonha lay.
Their given word was law and there it ended. There were isolated commands, like that at Jundhra, that were too far away to strike at Delhi and too large and too efficient to be shut in by the mutineers. They were centers on their own account of isolated small detachments, and each commander was given leave to act as he saw best, provided that he acted and did it quickly.
"And, my husband he knew all this before he left me here?" "Nay! That he did not! Had I told him, he had disobeyed his orders and shamed his service; he is young yet, and a hothead! He will be far along the road to Jundhra before he knows what burns. And then he will remember that he trusts me and obey orders and press on!" "And you knew and did not tell him!" "Of a truth I knew!"
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.
I am to bring you safe to Jundhra!" She held her hand out and he took it like a cavalier, bending until he could touch her fingers with his lips. "What is the meaning of this hurrying of the guns to Jundhra, Risaldar?" "Who knows, memsahib! The orders of the Sirkar come, and we of the service must obey. I am thy servant and the Sirkar's!"
"Barracks, heavenborn!" "Barracks? What barracks?" "There is but one barracks between here and Jundhra." "Then then then what has happened, Mahommed Khan?" "The worst has happened, heavenborn!" He stood between her and the ayah, so that she could not see the woman huddled on the floor. "The worst? You mean then my my husband you don't mean that my husband "
The general sahib from Jundhra and your husband's guns and others, making one division, are engaged with rebels eight or nine miles from here. We saw part of the battle as we rode!" "Who wins?" "It is doubtful, heavenborn! How could we tell from this distance?" "Have you a horse for me?" "Ay, heavenborn! Here! Bring up that horse, thou, and Suliman's!
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