making toward the bungalow. We had fifty yards' start, but they fired away
at us, a ball passing through the syce's leg as he scrambled up behind.
The horse went along at a gallop; but we were not safe, for parties were
carrying on their hellish work in every bungalow, Dunlop and Manners were
maddened by the screams they heard; and if it had not been for having me
under their charge, and by the thoughts of the girls, I believe they would
have jumped out and died fighting. A few of the black devils, hearing
wheels, ran out and fired; but we kept on at a full gallop till we were
well out of the place. A mile further Dunlop found the horse begin to
slacken his speed, and to go very leisurely. He jumped out to see what was
the matter, and found, as he expected, that the horse had been hit. He had
one bullet in the neck, another in the side. It was evident that it could
not go much further. They lifted me out and carried me to a patch of
bushes thirty yards from the road. The syce was told to drive on quietly
till the horse dropped. Dunlop gave him money and told him to meet us at
Meerut."

"Why did you not keep him with you? he would have been very useful?" Dick
asked.

"You see I wanted to get the trap as far away as possible before the horse
fell," Captain Dunlop said. "We did not know how severely wounded the
major was; indeed, we both feared he was killed; but the mutineers, when
they found the dead horse in the morning, were certain to make a search in
its neighbourhood, and would have found your father had he been close by
laid up with a wound."

"Happily I now began to come to," the major went on, continuing his story.
"The ball was nearly spent, and had given me a nasty scalp wound, and had
stunned me, but I now began to come round. The instant I was able to