understand where I was or what had happened, Dunlop and Manners, who were
half-wild with excitement and grief, made me promise to lie quiet, while
they went back to see what had become of you all. Of course I consented.
They were away about three hours, for they had to make a circle of the
cantonments, as our bungalow was quite at the other end. They brought
cheering news. They had first been to the house, and found it utterly
destroyed as they expected. That told them nothing; for if you had been
killed, your bodies would probably have been burned with the house. Then
they went out to the tope of trees where it was agreed that you should, if
possible, first fly. Here they found a pocket-handkerchief of Rose's; and
going round to the other side, found by the marks upon the soil that four
of you had started together. With hearts immensely lightened by the
discovery that you had, at any rate, all escaped from the first massacre,
they hurried back to gladden me with the news. I was past understanding it
when they arrived, for the intense pain in my head and my terrible anxiety
about you had made me delirious. It would have been certain death to stay
so near the road, so they dipped their handkerchiefs in water, and tied
them round my head; and then supporting me, one on each side, they half-
dragged, half-carried, me to a deserted and half-ruinous cottage, about a
mile away.

"Next day I was still feverish, but fortunately no one came near us.
Dunlop and Manners went out at night, and got a few bananas. Next morning
our regiment marched away; and Dunlop then appealed to an old cottager for
shelter and food for us all. He at once promised to aid us, and I was
removed to his cottage, where everything in his power was done for me. I
was now convalescent, and a day later we were talking of making a move
forward. That night, however, the cottage was surrounded--whether the
peasant himself or some one else betrayed us, we shall never know--but the
men that we saw there belonged to a regiment of mutineers that had marched