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Updated: June 18, 2025
At noon Prince Tchajawadse departed northwards accompanied by his page Georgi and his Indian servant. Heideck had observed great reserve during the short time he had known the beautiful Circassian, and had never betrayed that he had guessed the secret of her disguise.
He turned his horse and rode up to the house. But the vision disappeared as he drew near, as if the earth had swallowed it up. He accordingly was driven to assume that it was merely a delusion of his senses. He took leave of Prince Tchajawadse with a heartiness corresponding to their previous relations.
Uninjured in two great battles and a number of trifling skirmishes, I was unhappily destined to be incapacitated in quite an unimportant and inglorious encounter. Had I not been saved by an heroic woman, you would have heard no more of your old friend Tchajawadse, except that he was one of those who had remained on the field of honour. "Can you guess the name of this woman, comrade?
My friend, Prince Tchajawadse, has just now ridden over to Anar Kali in order, at my request, to look after the lady." He had not concluded the sentence when the tall form of the Prince made its appearance at the entrance of the tent. His downcast face presaged no good news. He advanced to Heideck and shook his hand. "I am not, unfortunately, the bearer of any good news, comrade.
"If I could get a passport, I could travel post to Delhi, where I should be with the English army. Can you get me a passport?" "I will try. Possibly Prince Tchajawadse may be persuaded to let me have one. I will point out to him that you are civilian officials." Prince Tchajawadse most emphatically refused to make out the passport for Mr. Kennedy and his family.
"If I remember rightly they arrived, without having met with any opposition worth mentioning, at Kandahar, and occupied the whole of Afghanistan. But, in spite of this, they finally suffered a disastrous defeat. Of their 15,000 men only 4,500 succeeded in returning in precipitate flight through the Khyber Pass back to India." Prince Tchajawadse laughed ironically. "Fifteen thousand?
Without uttering a syllable, the page had advanced towards him, and had quickly raised the intoxicated man from the chair. Prince Tchajawadse flung his arm round the boy's shoulders, and without bidding his German comrade as much as "good night," allowed himself to be led away. Heideck did not doubt for a moment that this slender page was a girl in disguise.
Prince Tchajawadse would not hear of any thanks for what he had done; but when Heideck asked him if he had really correctly understood that the Prince had spoken of an alliance between the Russian and German armies, the latter was not slow to give all information on this head. "Yes! yes! it is the fact! The German Empire is hand-in-hand with us.
That his Russian friend was animated by the same desire he could all the easier surmise, owing to the fact that Prince Tchajawadse belonged, of course, to one of the nations immediately concerned. He hastened, therefore, to acquaint him with the results of his interview with Colonel Baird. The effect of his communications upon the Prince was quite as he had anticipated. "So, really!
I hope it will reach you, and that you will occasionally find time to gladden your old friend Tchajawadse by letting him know that you are still alive." Heideck had glanced rapidly through the Prince's letter, written in French, which he had found waiting for him after his return from Antwerp.
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