straggling party of mutineers making our way to Delhi; while the bright
scarlet of our own uniform would have told its tale miles off."

"I shall be glad enough to get rid of mine, Dick; I feel as if I had got
into a boy's jacket by mistake. Jack Sepoy has no shoulders to speak of;
as far as height goes he is well enough; but thirty Sepoys on parade take
up no more room than twenty English. I had to take my jacket off last
night and lay it over my shoulders; I might as well have tried to go to
sleep in a vise. There! major; do you hear the music? These rascals are on
the march again."

The strains of music came very faintly to the ear, for the bivouac was
nearly a mile from the road.

"That is all right," the major said. "Now they have gone by, we can be
moving. We must give them an hour's start."

"Now, father, we have not heard your adventures yet; please tell us all
about them."

"Well, we have not had so much variety as you, but we have gone through a
good deal. You know we had talked over the best possible course to take in
case of an attack, come when it might. We had arranged what each should do
in case of a night attack, or of a rising upon parade; and we had even
considered the probability of being set upon when gathered in the
messroom. We had all agreed that if taken by surprise, resistance would
mean certain death; they would shoot us down through the doors and
windows, and we should be like rats in a cage. We agreed, therefore, that
in case of an attack, a simultaneous attempt to break out must be made,
and we had even settled upon the window by which we should go. The married