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Barnwell and J. Bowles and supped with us, and after supper away, and so I having taken leave of them and put things in the best order I could against to-morrow I went to bed. Old William Luffe having been here this afternoon and paid up his bond of L20, and I did give him into his hand my uncle's surrender of Sturtlow to me before Mr. Philips, R. Barnwell, and Mr.
All at once the silence of the night was torn by the rattle of musketry, and afar off the tom-toms beat yet more loudly. Luffe looked on with every faculty alert. He saw with a smile that the Doctor had joined them and lay behind a plank, firing rapidly and with a most accurate aim. But at the back of his mind all the while that he gave his orders was still the thought, "All this is nothing.
He and his troops and the Khan were now closely besieged by Wafadar Nazim. The work of mobilisation was pressed on; a great force was gathered at Nowshera; Brigadier Appleton was appointed to command it. "Luffe will hold out," said official India, trying to be cheerful. Perhaps the only man who distrusted Luffe's ability to hold out was Brigadier Appleton, who had personal reasons for his views.
Unhappiness and the distrust of his own people will be the best that can come of it, while ruin and disasters very well may. There are many ways of disaster. Suppose, for instance, this boy were to turn out a strong man. Do you see?" Dewes nodded his head. "Yes, I see," he answered, and he answered so because he saw that Luffe had come to the end of his strength.
He turned to the young Sapper. "Can we countermine?" The young Engineer took the place of Major Dewes. "We can try, but we are late," said he. "It must be a sortie then," said Luffe. "Yes," exclaimed Lynes eagerly. "Let me go, Sir Charles!" Luffe smiled at his enthusiasm. "How many men will you require?" he asked. "Sixty?" "A hundred," replied Dewes promptly.
Finally a messenger broke through and brought sure tidings. Luffe had marched quickly, had come within thirty miles of Kohara before he was stopped. In a strong fort at a bend of the river the young Khan with his wife and a few adherents had taken refuge. Luffe joined the Khan, sought to push through to Kohara and rescue Linforth, but was driven back.
He bowed himself out of the room and stalked through the alleys to the gates. "Wafadar Nazim must be very sure of victory," said Luffe. "He would hardly have given us that unfinished letter had he a fear we should escape him in the end." "He could not read what was written," said Dewes. "But he could fear what was written," replied Luffe.
And even then, when he did see and understand, he wondered how much Luffe really had foreseen. Enough, at all events, to justify his reputation for sagacity. Dewes went out from the bedroom and climbed up on to the roof of the Fort. The sun was up, the day already hot, and would have been hotter, but that a light wind stirred among the almond trees in the garden.
But the voice rose again, claiming admission to the fort, and this time a name was uttered urgently, an English name. "Don't fire," cried Luffe to the sentinel, and he leaned over the wall. "You come from Wafadar Nazim, and alone?" "Huzoor, my life be on it." "With news of Sahib Linforth?"
For on one point a point of fact Luffe was immediately proved wrong. Mir Ali, the Khan of Chiltistan, was retained upon his throne. Dewes turned the matter over in his slow mind. Wrong definitely, undeniably wrong on the point of fact, was it not likely that Luffe was wrong too on the point of theory? Dewes had six months furlong too, besides, and was anxious to go home.
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