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If you are stopped, fight your way through, whatever their force. It is a matter of supreme importance that this letter should reach the general." "It shall reach him, my lord," Harry said, as he took it; "in five minutes I shall be on my way." Going to his room he changed his attire, mounted his horse, and rode to Sufder's camp.
Sufder's followers were all picked men, and were better mounted than Scindia's troopers. These made special efforts to get at Harry, but the latter's skill with the sword enabled him to free himself from his most pressing opponents.
"He is indeed cast in a strong mould, and his face pleases me. "And so, you would enter the service of His Highness, the Peishwa?" "That is my desire, your excellency." "You are young to serve as an officer and, for the present, you had best remain with Sufder's troop. In the meantime, I will see what suitable post can be found for you."
I have of course enquired, and found that you spent your afternoon, as usual, with your scribe; and that you afterwards rode out to Sufder's camp, and there talked for half an hour, sitting outside the tent and conversing on ordinary matters; and then you returned here to the palace.
Harry himself was very well mounted, for Mahdoo Rao had given him two excellent horses; and as he had, when out with Sufder's troop, tried them against the best of those of the sowars, he felt sure that he could trust to them, in case of having to ride for his life.
"It is possible that he may have been murdered on the way, sir; for we saw a party of fifty horsemen on the road, whose intentions seemed to be hostile, but as I had Sufder's troop of a hundred men with me, they drew off." "But what is the news, then, that is so important that steps are taken to stop messengers that bear it?"
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