"Mr.Saunders is good enough to feel some confidence in my capacity, and I trust that I shall not disappoint him.
"We are going--but this, mind, is a profound secret till the day we march--to attack Arcot.

It is the only possible way of relieving Trichinopoli." "To attack Arcot ?" Doctor Rae said, astonished.

"That does indeed appear a desperate enterprise, with such a small body as you have at your command, and these, entirely new recruits.

But I recognize the importance of the enterprise.

If you should succeed, it will draw off Chunda Sahib from Trichinopoli.