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Outram's conduct to Havelock, in resigning to him, though his inferior officer, the honour of leading the attack on Lucknow, was a trait worthy of Sydney, and alone justifies the title which has been awarded to him of, "the Bayard of India." Even the common soldiers proved themselves gentlemen under their trials.
It is not to be written lightly that the British colonel of Outram's Own and his adjutant both knelt to a native woman if she is a native in a top back-room of a Delhi bazaar. But it has to be recorded that for the sake of Ranjoor Singh they did.
"Who are you? What d' you want?" "Sahib! Colonel Kirby sahib!" "What is it? Hallo there are the three lights no, two lights that's 'Get ready! Who are you? Why Ranjoor Singh!" "Salaam, sahib!" "Shake hands. By gad I'm glad! Find your squadron, Ranjoor Singh find it at once, man you're just in time. There go the three lights! Outram's Own! in line of squadron columns to the right Trot, March!
Without any further speech to us, he sat down at the table and wrote his name with a great flourish on the paper, setting down his rank beside his name. Then he called to me, and I sat and wrote my name below his, adding my rank also. And Gooja Singh followed me. After him, in single file, came every surviving man of Outram's Own.
Sikh-wise, he loved all things that expressed in any way his own unconquerable fire. Most of all, however, he loved the squadron; there was no woman, nor anything between him and D Squadron; but Bagh came next. Spurs were not needed when the general ceased speaking, and the British colonel of Outram's Own shouted an order.
The Jat spoke of a squadron; it is evident that he spoke truth. So his squadron watched him here! Go, jungli! Go, wash the blood away. Thou shalt have revenge! Come again to morrow. Nay, go now, I would sleep when I have finished laughing. Aye the gods love Yasmini!" The colonel of Outram's Own dropped into a club where he was only one, and not the greatest, of many men entitled to respect.
"Well, please enter him in Orders, too." "Special service?" "Special service," said the general. "How about Ranjoor Singh's charger?" "I understand that he's been kept well groomed by Ranjoor Singh's orders, and my adjutant tells me he has the horse in care in his own stable." The general made a note. "Whose stable?" lie asked. "Warrington's." "Warrington, of Outram's Own, eh? Captain Warrington?"
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