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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Ah does anybody but you know about this ordah, parsing?" "Nobody." "Well, if you will do me the great favor, parsing, of not mentioning it to nary a living soul as fer me and my ole gray hoss and my household furniture we'll be in Kanetuck afore daybreak to-morrow mornin'!" And he was. But he rode on just then and presented himself for the last time at the store of Flitter Bill.
The little party started, and tramped along the intervening fifteen miles much more comfortably than usual; as the rains had temporarily ceased, and the track had been greatly improved by the kings of Bekwai and Pekki. There was great difficulty in crossing the bridge over the Ordah river, but the guns were at last taken over safely, and they arrived at Pekki at half-past four in the afternoon.
Sir John Corbett rushed back to his chair and shouted "Ordah!" and the back rows, the ranks of Hitchin's men, stood up and shouted, "We won't sign!" "We won't sign!" "We won't sign!" And then young Horace did an unsuspected thing, a thing that surprised himself. He leaped on to the front bench and faced the insurgent back rows.
The road was practically an unbroken swamp, and the fatigue and discomfort of the journey were consequently terrible. The Ordah river was in flood, and had to be crossed on a felled tree. The distance to Pekki, the last Bekwai village, was fifteen miles.
At first some apprehensions were entertained that a night-attack would be made, but a heavy thunderstorm coming on, during which the flintlocks of the enemy would have been useless, rendered that improbable. By daybreak on the 4th, the bridge over the Ordah was completed, Major Home, of the Engineers, having worked at it all night throughout the whole of the tornado and drenching rain.
Afterward it was the cause of our forming another club that we called the 'Ordah of Hildegarde. I'll give you a sawt of an outline now, if you'll promise to read the entiah thing aftahward." "I'll promise," agreed Phil. "Then, this is it.
I have been hearing how you and a Sikh started to swim the Ordah, when it was in flood, with a wire; how you were washed away; how you were given up for lost; how, two days later, you returned to camp and went straight out again, with a party of twenty Sikhs, took a little stroll for ten miles into the bush and of course, as much back to carry in the Sikh soldier you had had with you, but who had been wounded, and was unable to come with you.
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