As they left the houses behind them, Surajah said: "You are going the wrong way, Sahib.

You are going right away from the ghauts." "I know that well enough," Dick panted; "but I did it on purpose.

We will turn and work round again.

They will hear, from the villagers, that we have come this way, and will be following us down the road while we are making our way back to the ghauts." They ran for another hundred yards, then quitted the path, and made across the fields.

From the fort and village they could hear a great hubbub, and above it could make out the voice of the officer, shouting orders.