The major and his friend were shot down as they sallied out, sword in hand.
The same fate befell Mrs.Lindsay.
Then the Mahrattas proceeded to loot the camp.

The ayah had thrust the child underneath the wall of the tent, at the first alarm.

A Mahratta seized her, and would have cut her down, had she not recognized him by the light of the lamp which hung from the tent ridge.
"Why, cousin Sufder," she exclaimed, "do you not know me ?" He loosed his hold, and stood back and gazed at her.
"Why, Soyera," he exclaimed, "is it you?
It is more than ten years since I saw you! "It is my cousin," he said to some of his companions who were standing round, "my mother's sister's child." "Don't be alarmed," he went on, to the woman, "no one will harm you.

I am one of the captains of this party." "I must speak to you alone, Sufder." She went outside the tent with him.
"You have nothing to fear," he said.

"You shall go back with us to Jooneer.