"Take a look out up the valley.

They ought to be coming by this time." Surajah applied his eye to one of the loopholes.
"I can see them," he said.

"They are half a mile away.

There are two mounted men.

I expect one is their officer, and the other the man who rode back to fetch them." "Let us set to work at the loopholes under the windows, Surajah.