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Updated: May 18, 2025
And Forsyth Sahib looked on the carpet and pulled the hair of his lip. He saw the trap. 'Forsyth Sahib's regiment was once the old Forty-sixth Pathans which was called the Subadar-Major gave the almost forgotten title, adding that he had met them in such and such campaigns, when Forsyth Sahib was a young captain.
Yet they endured each his full hour not half an hour his one full hour in each four hours. 'Correct! correct! said the Subadar-Major and the Chaplain together. 'We come well out of this affair.
'But seeing that they were old men, said the Subadar-Major reflectively, 'very old men, worn out by lack of food and sleep, could not arrangements have been made, or influence have been secured, or a petition presented, whereby a well-born Sikh might have eased them of some portion of their great burden, even though his substantive rank
They mocked him and his tears, which was the same as though they had mocked the Regiment. Then Attar Singh returned to the Regiment, and laid this last trouble before Rutton Singh, the eldest brother. But Rutton Singh could not get leave all at once. 'Because he was drill-Naik and the recruits were to be drilled. I myself told him so, said the Subadar-Major. 'He was a well-conducted man.
'I expect Grunthi-jee, said the Subadar-Major, 'you and I grow too old to care for the Kahar-ki-nautch the Bearer's dance. He named one of the sauciest of the old-time nautches, and smiled at his own pun. Then he turned to his nephew. 'When I was a lad and came back to my village on leave, I waited the convenient hour, and, the elders giving permission, I spoke of what I had seen elsewhere.
'But the man escaped and is now in the hospital here, said the Subadar-Major. 'The doctor says he will live in spite of all. 'Not Rutton Singh's fault. Rutton Singh left him for dead.
They had not eaten food except by snatches for some long time; and when the meat had given them strength they slept for very many hours; and it was told me that the procession of the unendurable feet ceased to pass before their eyes any more. He threw out one hand palm upward to show that the tale was ended. 'We came well and cleanly out of it, said the Subadar-Major. 'Correct! Correct!
Some few, but very few, of the natives proved true to their oaths. Among them was the old subadar-major of the regiment, who defended as long as he had the power the colours and treasure, which were in the quarter guard. The old man was found in the morning severely wounded, and lying in his blood at his post. He remained with the British, and was killed by a shell in the intrenchment.
They went back always to perpetual trouble, either of lawsuits, or theft, or strayed cattle; and they sat on thorns. 'I knew it, said the Subadar-Major. 'Life was bitter for them both. But they were well-conducted men. It was not hard to get them their leave from the Colonel Sahib. 'They spoke to me also, said the Chaplain.
They sat upon the boulders to watch, for their officers were not going to waste their wind in assisting to repulse a Ghazi rush more than half a mile away. Let the white men look to their own front. "Hi! yi !" said the Subadar-Major, who was sweating profusely. "Dam fools yonder, stand close order! This is no time for close order, it is the time for volleys. Ugh!"
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