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Updated: June 25, 2025
She is a very plucky girl, and, although she had never been on a horse before, rode all the way down, until we got this side of Kistnagherry. But as you may imagine, the poor little thing is completely knocked up, so we brought her down from there in a cart.
I think that is the only time I have hoped, since I was made prisoner; but the old man is a good soldier, and beat them off. "When peace was made, Kistnagherry was, as you know, given up, and the governor was ordered to evacuate the place, and to come here.
But the governor is a kind-hearted old fellow, and as I had become almost a chum of his, he chose to consider that the order did not apply to me, but only to those he had found at Kistnagherry for I fancy my existence had been forgotten altogether. "I had great hopes that the British would take the place.
Presently, however, she was able to release her hold of the latter, and it was not long before she was able, honestly, to assure Dick that she felt quite comfortable, and had no fear of falling off. In two hours they passed near the hill on which stood the fortress of Kistnagherry, which had successfully resisted the attack of the English, but above which now flew the British flag.
It was, as you may suppose, a terrible disappointment to me when they failed in their attack on it. Still, I hoped that they would finally thrash Tippoo, and that, somehow, I might get handed over to them. However, as you know, when peace was made, and Kistnagherry had to be given over, the governor got orders to evacuate it, without waiting for the English to come up to take possession.
Surajah was not so particular, and he replied: "Well, he has given us a mission to visit the hill forts, and as Kistnagherry is a hill fort, it is not a very great stretch to include it." Dick laughed. "That is ingenious, Surajah. Anyhow, I don't see any better excuse for crossing the frontier, and so we must make the best of it; but I hope we sha'n't be asked at all."
Still, it would look suspicious, our leaving the the country altogether, and we must give some explanation if they ask us." "I might say that we are charged with a mission to the English commander at Kistnagherry." "That might do, Surajah. The fort is only eight or ten miles on the other side of the frontier, and we might very well be sent on some message.
I was not here, for I was in command of Kistnagherry at that time, and succeeded in holding it against their assaults. When the war was over, and Kistnagherry was ceded to them, I was appointed to this fortress, which seems to me to be even stronger than that was.
"Now, Surajah," Dick said, "we will be colonels again for a bit." The saddlebags were again opened, and in a few minutes they were transformed. "Why, where on earth did you get those uniforms?" Captain Holland asked, in surprise. "Those sashes are the signs that their wearers are officers of the Palace, for I have seen them more than once at Kistnagherry; and the badges are those of colonels.
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