I said, 'Yes.' He made no further remark, and they both walked steadily on until they reached the guns, to which they were bound, when one of them requested that some rupees he had on his person might be saved for his relations.

The Brigadier answered: 'It is too late!' The word of command was given; the guns went off simultaneously, and the two mutineers were launched into eternity.
It was a terrible sight, and one likely to haunt the beholder for many a long day; but that was what was intended.

I carefully watched the sepoys' faces to see how it affected them.

They were evidently startled at the swift retribution which had overtaken their guilty comrades, but looked more crest-fallen than shocked or horrified, and we soon learnt that their determination to mutiny, and make the best of their way to Delhi, was in nowise changed by the scene they had witnessed.
[Footnote 1: The late General Sir Henry Daly, G.C.B.] [Footnote 2: Now General Sir John Coke, G.C.B.] [Footnote 3: Afterwards commanded by Lieutenant, now General, Sir Dighton Probyn, V.C., G.C.V.O., K.C.B.] [Footnote 4: The late Major-General Sir George Green, K.C.B.] [Footnote 5: The late Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Wilde, K.C.B., K.C.S.I.] [Footnote 6: The late General James Walker, C.B., sometime Surveyor-General in India.] [Footnote 7: Now General Sir George Bourchier, K.C.B.] [Footnote 8: Now, except for one short interval, every officer who has joined the Indian Army since 1861 must, in the first instance, have belonged or been attached to one of Her Majesty's British regiments: the great majority have been educated at Sandhurst or Woolwich, and all feel that they are members of the same army.] [Footnote 9: The late Sir Robert Montgomery, G.C.B.] [Footnote 10: During the operations in the Kohat Pass in February, 1850, within twelve months of the corps being raised, several of the men were killed and wounded.

Among the latter was a Pathan named Mahomed Gul.