When you reach the railway, you will be able to get a through ticket to Calcutta.
"As long as it was likely that we should be going down ourselves, I was glad to keep you here; but now that we have got orders to go off and have a talk with these tribes in the north, it is clearly impossible for us to keep you any longer.

I am very sorry, my boy, for you know we all like you, for your own sake and for your good father's." "I am awfully obliged to you all, colonel.

You have been very good to me, since my father was killed.

I feel that I have had no right to stop here so long; but I quite understand that, now you are moving up into the hills, you cannot keep me.
"I suppose I could not go as a volunteer, colonel ?" he asked, wistfully.
"Quite impossible," the colonel said, decidedly.

"Even if you had been older, I could not have taken you.