Ladders were lowered to them, and they were marched as prisoners to the fort.
The next morning, when the defenders of the fortress looked over the valley, the great camp was gone.

The nizam and Bussy, despairing of the possibility of carrying the position, at once so enormously strong by nature, and so gallantly defended, had raised the siege; which had cost them over two thousand of their best soldiers, including two hundred French killed and prisoners, and retreated to the plateau of the Deccan.
The exultation of the rajah and his troops was unbounded.

They felt that, now and henceforth, they were safe from another invasion; and the rajah saw that, in the future, he should be able to gain greatly increased territory, as the ally of the English.

His gratitude to Charlie was unbounded, and he literally loaded him with costly presents.
Three weeks later, a letter was received by the latter from Mr.
Saunders, congratulating him upon the inestimable service which he had rendered, and appointing him to the rank of captain in the Company's service.

Now that the rajah would be able to protect himself, should any future assault be made upon him--an event most unlikely to happen, as Bussy and the nizam would be unwilling to risk a repetition of a defeat, which had already so greatly injured their prestige--he had better return to Madras, where, as Mr.Saunders said, the services of so capable an officer were greatly needed.