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Updated: May 19, 2025
The general then bent his head over his plans, and took no further notice of McKay. Our hero was again marched into the yard, made to remount, re-bound, and led off towards the principal part of the town. They now skirted the ridge of the Karabel suburb, and began to descend. Half way down they came upon a series of excavations in the side of the hill.
The next piece of information that reached McKay from the same source, but by a different messenger, was more readily credited. He learnt this time that the Russians intended to establish a new kind of battery in front of the Karabel suburb. "What kind?" asked McKay. The messenger, a hungry-looking Tartar who spoke broken English, but when encouraged explained himself freely in Russian, said
All this time the road led by the water's edge; but presently they left it, and, crossing the head of a creek, mounted a steep hill, which brought them to the Karabel suburb, as it was called, a detached part of the main town, now utterly wrecked and ruined by the besiegers' fire.
"This place is not safe. Let us fall back to the Karabel barrack." "You had better come too," said one soldier thoughtfully to McKay, as he gathered up the long skirts of his grey great-coat to allow of more expeditious retreat. "All right," said McKay, "I will follow."
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