This official at first promised to give Stewart a small escort as far as Delhi, but on various pretexts he put him off from day to day.

At the end of a week Stewart saw that the Wazir either could not or would not give him an escort, and thinking it useless to delay any longer, he made up his mind to start without one.
There were several refugees in the camp, and one of them, Mr.Ford, collector and magistrate of Gurgaon, offered to join Stewart in his venture.
Stewart and his companion left the Jaipur camp on the afternoon of the 27th June, and reached Palwal soon after dark.

Ford sent for the _kotwal_,[3] who was one of his own district officials, and asked him for food.

This was produced, but the _kotwal_ besought the _sahibs_ to move on without delay, telling them that their lives were in imminent danger, as there was a rebel regiment in the town, and he was quite unable to protect them.

So they continued their journey, and, escaping from one or two threatened attacks by robbers, reached Badshahpur in the morning.