The men are all but dead but will live for such another one." "Wouldst thou be so beaten ?" "How can I prevent, if your highness wishes ?" "Take this.

It is intended for Peshawur but may be given to any British officer above the rank of major.

It calls for a receipt.

Do not dare come back, or be caught in Howrah City, without a receipt for that tube and its contents intact!" "If Alwa and Mahommed Gunga are in league with my brother," muttered Jaimihr to himself when the fat Hindoo had gone, "then the sooner the British quarrel with both of them the better.

Howrah alone I can dispose of easily enough, and there is yet time before rebellion starts for the British to spike the guns of the other two.