After breakfast we stood in groups, confirming our decision with great oaths and binding one another to fulfillment--I no less than all the others.

Like the others I was blinded now by the sense of our high purpose and I forgot to consider what might happen should Ranjoor Singh take any other line than that expected of him.
I think it was eleven in the morning of the fourth day after our decision, when we had all grown weary of threats of vengeance and of argument as to what each individual man should do to our major's body, that there was some small commotion at the entrance gate and a man walked through alone.

The gate slammed shut again behind him.
He strode forward to the middle of our compound, stood still, and confronted us.

We stared at him.

We gathered round him.