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"Thank you, sir, I am much improved," I managed to stammer out, overwhelmed by this condescension on the part of so great a man. "And are the French beaten?" I asked anxiously, for I had not heard the news. The Colonel turned to Mr. Scrafton and laughed. "There's my little purser all over!" he exclaimed, with evident goodwill.
Scrafton, who was well versed in the Indostanee, and who was obliging enough to offer to impart it to me, I having rendered him some services in the transcribing of his papers and accounts. Having much time on my hands on so long a voyage, I very thankfully accepted his proposal, though little then foreseeing the benefit I was to derive from it.
An Indian came out, very gaunt and fierce, who demanded in English what we did there. "We are come to see Mr. Rising," I told him, using his own language which Mr. Scrafton had taught me. "Is this his house?" "It is, my lord," says the fellow, much surprised, and giving a low bow, which they call a salawm. With that I dismissed our conductor, and Mr.
Scrafton handed me a paper, duly signed, containing my commission as an ensign in the service of the East India Company. I could only murmur out my gratitude for these marks of consideration; while Mr. Clive went on to say "And now you must make haste and get about again, for as soon as you are able to travel I have an important mission for you to discharge." "And what is that, sir?"
The famous Sabat Jung sat writing at a small table, from which he looked up as we entered, and cast a sharp glance over me. Mr. Scrafton spoke in English. "Colonel, here is a Moor from the Nabob's capital, with a message from his general to you." Mr. Clive laid down his pen. "Tell him to deliver it," he said. Before Mr.
Scrafton and Clive, that Drake, the cowardly Governor of Calcutta, very naturally could not understand what was meant by this claim to the honours of war. "My guns were conducted by land by a small detachment, the command of which I gave to M. Chevalier, and we embarked on some small boats belonging to the Raja, in which we had hardly room to move.
"Mr. Scrafton, you have heard what this young man says. I desire you will send at once for Angria's envoy, and tell him that if I find one hair of this girl's head has been injured I will hang him from his own walls." He spoke this in a stern and terrible manner, which imparted some fear even to me.
To this gentleman I brought a letter from Mr. Scrafton, to recommend me to his good offices, and having read it he at once received me very civilly and promised me his friendship.
I found him in the tent with Mr. Scrafton, and he held a letter in his hand. "The Nabob has sent to me," he said, "desiring me to appoint some persons to treat with him of the peace, and I have chosen Mr. Scrafton and you as my deputies. What do you say, Ford? Are you ready to trust your head in the tiger's jaws again, after your late adventures?"
About the time he was writing this, Clive was writing to say that he had received Courtin's offer of surrender, and that Kasim Ali was to cease hostilities and allow the French to come to him with their boats and necessaries. Kasim Ali had received orders to the same effect from Mr. Scrafton, who informed him he was sending an officer to accept their surrender.
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