That is mine, which I left with my friends against my return." "We are well supplied in that respect; we accept your invitation with many thanks." As the doctor spoke he stepped down from the veranda, followed by the others, and Mr.Anderson led the way across the lawn to the river, where his friends were awaiting his coming with many misgivings.

A general introduction followed.

A common danger makes friends of strangers, and in a few minutes all were as well acquainted as if they had known one another for days and weeks.

Anderson and Turner were men in middle life, while Wharton was of about the same age as Jack Everson.

They had lived for several years on the outskirts of Meerut, but it was young Wharton who discovered the impending peril, and it was due to him that the three families escaped the fate of hundreds of others on that woful night.