For there were the signs of death upon his face.
"The fourth week!" said Lynes.

"Is it, by George?
Well, the siege won't last much longer now.

The Sirkar don't leave its servants in the lurch.
That's what these hill-tribes never seem to understand.

How is Travers ?" he asked of the Doctor.
Travers, a subaltern of the North Surrey Light Infantry, had been shot through the thigh in the covered waterway to the river that morning.
"He's going on all right," replied the Doctor.

"Travers had bad luck.