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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Pull yourself together man!" exclaimed Dermot in disgust. "Go on. What happened?" "They seized and bound her," continued the Bengali, mastering his emotion. "These cowards" with a wave of his hand he indicated the servants "did nothing to protect her. Only the syce attempted to resist, and they killed him." He pointed to the prostrate man.
Our thickest clothing was penetrated by a searching though slight breeze, as our little rat of a pony, guided by the syce, clambered bravely up the brae that led through Tosari village. The road bore away to the left, and we were soon slipping and jolting down a mountain path that sank into a crater-like ravine. It was like a descent into the infernal regions. Disaster seemed inevitable.
"Happily, the syce had proved faithful; he had been with Dunlop ever since he joined the regiment, and Dunlop once risked his life to save him from a tiger. There was the syce with the trap. He had not dared bring it out till the first shot was fired, lest his fellow-servants, who were all traitors, should stop it; but the instant it began, he came round.
If you lay a couple of blankets on the bamboos, you will find that you don't want a mattress." "I don't know what my duties are, sir, or whether the general will be wanting me." "He will not want you, today. Anyhow, he will know that you will be making your arrangements, and moving into your quarters. "By the way, Hitchcock brought a syce with him.
A Syce led the pony on each side, but their faces I could not see, the one next to me having his back to me and the one farthest off being hidden by the pony's head. Each held the bridle close by the bit, the man next me with his right and the other with his left hand, and the hands were on the thighs of the rider, as if to steady him in his seat.
In the cool early mornings, when the heavy night dews still lie glittering on the grass, when the cobwebs seem strung with pearls, and faint lines of soft fleecy mist lie in the hollows by the watercourses; long ere the hot, fiery sun has left his crimson bed behind the cold grey horizon, we are out on our favourite horse, the wiry, long-limbed syce or groom trotting along behind us.
I had two horses, one a black mare that I called Soda, which means black in Arabic, and the other a hard-headed bay gelding that was game to go all day, totally unaffected by shell-fire, but exceedingly stubborn about choosing the direction in which he went. After numerous changes I came across an excellent syce to look after them.
F.'s syce ran to extricate his master and horse; the two peons kept calling, 'Oh! my father, my father, the horses snorted, and struggled desperately in the tenacious and treacherous quicksand; but after a prolonged effort, we all got safely out, and rejoined H. on the firm ridge.
She went into Tudor's room before starting and found the letter for the colonel. It was addressed and sealed. She gave it to a syce with orders to deliver it into the colonel's own hands without delay. Then, still quivering with an apprehension she would not own, she mounted and rode away to the surgeon's bungalow. Mrs. Raleigh received her with some surprise. "Ah, come in!" she said kindly.
But as she was never a friend of mine, and we are leaving within the next few hours, the injunction to avoid her is unnecessary." She paused as though listening. "I hear some one talking to the syce," she went on hurriedly. "It sounds like Captain Stafford's voice. Archibald" she turned and came quickly to his side "please let me out of the verandah. I don't want to meet him."
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