I shall have a communication to send to Colonel Ochterlony this afternoon, and should be obliged if you will carry it for me." Harry bowed and left; and then joined the officers of the staff, who were just sitting down to lunch, and were all glad to see him again.
"So you managed to get through Holkar's lines, Lindsay ?" "Oh, yes! I met with no difficulty, and only fell in once with any of his troops.

I spent an evening with their officer, and after that rode through without interruption.

There was really no danger, and I do not think Holkar, himself, could have suspected me of being a British officer." "And now, about the siege.

You may imagine that we were all very anxious about it; for though, of course, we should soon have retaken the place, there would have been a general plunder and massacre by that brute Holkar." "You must wait for particulars until you get there," Harry said, "for I know nothing about it whatever, except what I have heard." "And how is that ?" "I was, at the time, a prisoner in the hands of the petty Rajah of Sekerah.

He promised to send in three hundred men.