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Updated: May 16, 2025
There remained no virtue, then, in the eyes of Outram's Own for Colonel Kirby to acquire; he had all that they could imagine, besides at least a dozen they had not imagined before he came to them.
On the morrow they went to London and waited there a while, but no word came from Jane Beach, and for good or ill the chains of the oath that he had taken riveted themselves around Leonard Outram's neck. Within three months of this night the brothers were nearing the shores of Africa, the land of the Children of the Mist. "What is the time, Leonard?" "Eleven o'clock, Tom." "Eleven already?
Nor was the way he took the corner by the barrack gate, on one wheel, any criterion; he always did it, just as he never failed to acknowledge the sentry's salute by raising his whip. It needed the observant eyes of Outram's Own to detect the rather strained calmness and the almost inhumanly active eye. "Beware!" called the sentry, while he was yet three hundred yards away. "Be awake!" "Be awake!
By the door at which he had entered stood a trooper of D Squadron, Outram's Own, no longer in uniform, but dressed as a Sikh servant. The man's arms were folded on his breast. The rigidity, straight stature, and attitude appealed to the German as the sight of sea did to the ancient Greeks. "Salaam!" said Ranjoor Singh.
In a bay of the wall of the Charbagh enclosure General Neill is standing waiting for the effect of Outram's flank movement to develop, and young Havelock, mounted, is on the other side of the road somewhat forward. Matters are at a deadlock. It seems as if Outram had lost his way.
A trumpet sounded, and Colonel Kirby rose in his stirrups: "Outram's Own!" he yelled, "by squadrons on number One " But the sahib would not be interested in the sequence of commands that have small meaning to those not familiar with them. And who shall describe what followed?
"And you mean there's a chance even a chance of us of Outram's Own bein' out of it? Beg your pardon, sir, but are you serious?" "Yes," said Kirby, and Warrington's jaw fell. "Any details that are not too confidential for me to know?" asked Warrington. "Tell you all about it after I've had a word with Ranjoor Singh." "Hadn't I better go and help look for him?" "Yes, if you like."
He was willing to eat agony at any time for the squadron's sake for a squadron of Outram's Own is a unity to marvel at, or envy; and its leader a man to be forgiven spurs a half-inch longer than the regulation. As a soldier, however, he was careful of himself when occasion offered.
Line after rippling line, all Sikhs of the true Sikh baptism except for the eight of their officers who were European, Outram's Own swept down a living avenue of British troops; and neither gunners nor infantry could see one flaw in them, although picking flaws in native regiments is almost part of the British army officer's religion.
Therefore a floating bridge must be built over which the troops might pass; and so hard did the men work, that in three days the little army, consisting, with Outram's reinforcements, of 3,179 soldiers, was once more in Oude. Here the sepoys were awaiting them, but they were soon put to flight and some guns captured.
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