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HARRY HARDWICKE TAKES THE GATE NEATLY.
In the few days succeeding Hugh Johnstone's still unsuspected departure, the dull fires of a growing jealousy burned and smouldered in Captain Harry Hardwicke's agitated heart.

The old nabob had neatly slipped away in the night, on a special engine, and the Captain heard all the growing tattle of Delhi, as to the social activity at the marble house.

The open hospitable board of General Willoughby rang with the very wildest rumors.

Alan Hawke seemed to be the "Prince Charming" of the hidden festivities.
Hardwicke, on the eve of his Majority, now darkly moped in his rooms, undecided to apply for a long home leave, unwilling to leave Delhi, and even afraid to ask his general for any positive favor as to a future station.