Have you heard of that year, Ahmed Ismail, and of the month and of the day?
Do you know what was done that day in the Bibigarh at Cawnpore ?" Ahmed Ismail watched the light grow in Shere Ali's eyes, and a smile crept into his face, too.
"Huzoor, Huzoor," he said, in a whisper of delight.

He knew very well what had happened in Cawnpore, though he knew nothing of the month or the day, and cared little in what year it had happened.
"There were 206 women and children, English women, English children, shut up in the Bibigarh.

At five o'clock--and it is well to remember the hour, Ahmed Ismail--at five o'clock in the evening the five men of the Nana's bodyguard went into the Bibigarh and the doors were closed upon them.

It was dark when they came out again and shut the doors behind them, saying that all were dead.

But it was not true.