The villagers' arms were, however, wholly untrustworthy, and the powder bad.

One of the troopers was hit in the arm but, with that exception, they rode out unharmed.
"What does it all mean, Abdool ?" Harry asked as, after riding fast for a quarter of a mile, they broke into a slower pace.

"Of course, they must in some way have recognized me, for I heard some of them saying, 'Death to the English infidel!'" "It was through me that they recognized you, sahib," Abdool said.
"They seized me before they entered your hut, and tied a bandage round my mouth, to prevent my giving any alarm.

As they took me out into the road, one of them said: "'Son of Sheitan, I knew you directly I saw you.

You were with that English officer, in Nagpore.