"You can tell me the whole story, as we go along." Two of the sowars were ordered to give up their horses to Dick and Surajah, and to mount behind comrades.

Then they started down the valley, Dick riding between his uncle and the captain, while Surajah took his place with the two other officers of the troop.

They rode so rapidly that Dick's story was scarcely concluded by the time they reached the village where the troops were quartered.
"Well, you have done marvelously well, Dick," his uncle said.

"Surajah deserves the highest praise, too.

Now I will write a note to the British officer with the Nabob, giving the news of Tippoo's movements, and will send it off by two of the troopers, at once.