"See them in that shed! Take one and ride, for it is more fitting!" "Better plunder and burn!" said he.

"If a man stole my dinner I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death would play hide-and-seek! We need forgetfulness, not angry memories, behind us! Keep thou a good eye on Tugendheim!" So I fell to the rear, where I could see all the men, Tugendheim included! In a very few minutes we had lost the station buildings in the rain behind us and then Ranjoor Singh began to lead in a wide semicircle, so that before long I judged we were marching about southeastward.

At the end of an hour or so he changed direction to due east, and presently we saw another telegraph line.

I overtook him again and suggested that we cut it.
"Nay!" said he.

"If that line works and we are not believed drowned, too many telegrams will have been sent already! To cut it would give them our exact position! Otherwise--why make trouble and perhaps cause pursuit ?" So we marched under the telegraph wire and took a course about parallel to it.