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Updated: June 12, 2025
Even these men do not much like going there; but I told them that no evil spirits would come, where white men were." "It is rather far off, Meinik; but as you say the country is cultivated, for some distance round the town, we shall certainly have to leave our horses some six or seven miles away; and two or three miles will not make much difference. We can put on our disguises there.
At first the man would say nothing to him, but Meinik told him that he was one of those who had been sent to Rangoon to aid, when the assault took place; and that he was anxiously waiting for news when the favourable day would be declared by the astrologers, so that he and those with him would be ready to begin their work, as soon as the attack commenced.
"If the men of his race are as brave as he is, Meinik, our troops will truly have harder work than they think to drive them into the sea. Does he speak our tongue?" "Yes," Stanley answered for himself. "I have been more than two years in the province of Chittagong, and learned it from one who was in our service." "And would many of your people risk their lives in the way you did, for a stranger?"
Without giving Harry time to reply, Stanley pressed his hand and left his bedside. He paused for a minute, to inform the trooper of the plans for the escape, and then he got through the window. Meinik joined him at once and, without a word being spoken, they crossed the palisade, threw down the rope and blankets, and dropped after them to the ground.
The news gave them great satisfaction; for although Meinik had told them there was a staircase above blocked with stones, it had seemed so impossible, to him, to clear it that he had placed no stress upon the fact; and the preparations made by the enemy to cut off any possible retreat had greatly depressed them.
Of course, they don't know what our strength is; but they have had so sharp a lesson, today, that they will take every precaution, in future. "Well, what is it, Meinik?" "We have been talking together, master; and we think that, if we were to call out that they might take the bodies away, without any interference by us, they would do so.
He saw at once that, as Meinik had told him, it would be impossible to get through this block by the same means as before for, as the groove deepened, the labour would become greater and greater and, from the inclination of the stone, they would in time arrive at a point where the axe could no longer be used to strike the chisel.
They told Meinik that the army was, for a time, profoundly depressed.
"You had better take a couple of boys to look after the horses, while we are away." "They would not sleep there, at night," Meinik said, doubtfully. "I don't think the men would, either, if you were not there." "That would not matter, Meinik, if as you say, there is no fear of anyone else going there." "Certainly, no one else will go there at night, master."
"At any rate, if you can get two boys to go, we may as well take them. They might go there in the day, and feed and water the horses; and sleep some distance away, at night." Meinik found two boys, sixteen years old, who said that they would go with them and, at the hour agreed on, Stanley and Meinik started on horseback.
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