Mr.Holland was a favourite of his, for, being a sailor, he was handy at all sorts of things.

He could mend a piece of broken furniture, repair the lock of a musket, and make himself generally useful.

He left there before I did, as the governor was transferred to some other fort--I never heard where it was--and he took your father with him.

I don't know whether he had Tippoo's orders to do so, or whether he took him simply because he liked him.
"At any rate, he was the only prisoner who went with him.

The rest of us remained there till a few months back, when the fort was abandoned.
It was just after the capture of Bangalore, and the place could have offered no resistance, if a body of troops had been sent against it.
At any rate, an order arrived one morning, and a few hours afterwards the place was entirely abandoned, and we and the garrison marched here." "My father was quite well ?" "Quite well.