Hindoo in country dress. He examined his fellow-travelers, and pronounced
himself perfectly satisfied with their appearance.

Outside the tent six horses were in readiness. Colonel Warrener, and his
friends Dunlop and Manners, mounted on three, the others were for the
travelers; and with a hearty good-by to their other friends in the secret,
the party started.

Half an hour's riding took them to the place where the boat was concealed
in the bushes; and with a tender farewell from their father, and a hearty
good-by from his companions, the three adventurers took their places in
the boat and started.

Noiselessly they paddled across the Ganges, stepped out in the shallow
water on the other side, turned the boat adrift to float down with the
stream, and then struck across the country toward Lucknow.

They were now off the main road, on which the Oude mutineers collected to
oppose the advance of General Havelock were for the most part stationed.
Thus they passed village after village, unchallenged and unquestioned, and
morning, when it dawned, found them twenty miles on the road toward
Lucknow. Then they went into a wood and lay down to sleep, for even if any
one should enter accidentally and discover them, they had no fear of any
suspicion arising. They were now near the main road, and when they
started--just as it became dusk--they met various parties of horse and
foot proceeding toward Cawnpore; sometimes they passed without a question,
sometimes a word or two were said, the guide answering, and asking how
things went at Lucknow.

The subject was evidently a sore one; for curses on the obstinate