The men regarded them with interest, and then burst into a loud cheer.
"That is good," the officer said.

"It shows that you like him.
Henceforth he will rank as one of the officers; and I hope you will all like him, in that capacity, as well as you did when he was one of yourselves." They then walked off, leaving the company in a state of excitement.
In the afternoon, at mess, Lisle learned the whole details of the siege, which had been gathered from the officers of the garrison.
On March 2nd, Mr.Robertson received information that Sher Afzul had arrived in the valley and, the next day, news came that he was, with a large following, at a small house in a ravine, about a mile and a quarter from the fort.

Captain Campbell, with two hundred of the Kashmir Rifles, was sent out to make a reconnaissance.

He was accompanied by Captains Townshend and Baird, and by Surgeon Captain Whitchurch and Lieutenant Gurdon.

The rest were left in the bazaar, to hold the road.
The enemy, one hundred and fifty strong, were seen on the bare spur which forms the right bank of the ravine.