body of cavalry dashed in among them.

For a moment all was confusion; but the troops were all inured to war;
with wonderful rapidity they rallied and attacked the enemy, who were over
five thousand strong, and finally defeated them with great slaughter, and
captured fourteen guns. Agra saved, the column started two days later for
Cawnpore; upon the way it defeated bodies of rebels, and punished some
zemindars who had taken part against us, and arrived at Cawnpore on the
26th of October.

At Majupoorie, halfway up from Agra, the force had been joined by a
brigade under Colonel Hope Grant, who, as senior officer, took the command
of the column. They marched into Cawnpore three thousand five hundred
strong, all troops who had gone through the siege of Delhi; and Ned at
once joined his regiment, where he was warmly received.

On the following day the Ninety-third Highlanders and a part of the naval
brigade, two hundred strong, arrived; and Dick's delight as the column
marched in was unbounded. He reported himself for duty at once, and, as
among the officers were some of his own shipmates, he was at once at home.

There was little sleep in the tents of the junior officers of the brigade
that night. Dick's name had been twice mentioned in dispatches, and all
sorts of rumors as to his doings had reached his comrades. The moment,
therefore, that dinner was over, Dick was taken to a tent, placed on a
very high box on a table, supplied with grog, and ordered to spin his
yarn, which, although modestly told, elicited warm applause from his
hearers.

On the 30th Colonel Grant's column moved forward, and arrived after three