He had but just entered when I called you in." "Now, Mr.Bullen, let us hear how it happened." "It was very simple, sir.

The Afridis were but twenty paces away, when I started the colonel's horse.

I saw that fighting would be hopeless, so threw down my sword and pistol.

I should have been cut up at once, had not their chief shouted to them to leave me alone, and to fire after Colonel Houghton.

This they did and, I was happy to see, without success." "Then the chief sent me off, under the guard of four men, to his village; with the intention, as I afterwards heard, of holding me as a hostage.