He would not take any reward that it was then in the power of Stewart or Ford to offer him, but he expressed a hope that, when the country became settled, the slight service he had performed would not be forgotten.

They gratefully assured him on this point, and thanked him cordially, giving him at the same time a letter testifying to his valuable service.

Stewart then went to the nearest village, and for a small reward found a man who undertook to conduct them safely to one of our piquets.
One curious circumstance remarked by Stewart throughout the ride was that the peasants and villagers, though not generally hostile to him, had evidently made up their minds that the British _raj_ was at an end, and were busily engaged in rendering their villages defensible, to meet the troubles and disturbances which they considered would surely follow on the resumption of Native rule.
It is difficult to over-estimate the pluck and enterprise displayed by Stewart during this most adventurous ride.

It was a marvel that he ever reached Delhi.

His coming there turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him, for the qualities which prompted him to undertake and carried him through his dangerous journey, marked him as a man worthy of advancement and likely to do well.
[Footnote 1: While the regiment was in the act of mutinying one of the sepoys left the parade-ground, and running round to all the civilians' houses, told the occupants what had happened, and warned them to make their escape.