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At the Point of the Bayonet

CHAPTER 19: Bhurtpoor
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There is no one to whom I can look for aid.

I put myself in the English general's hands." "I will willingly go, Rajah.

No doubt it has been supposed, for weeks, that I and my escort have perished.

And when the general hears of the kind treatment that we have received--a treatment so different from that we should have met with, had we fallen into the hands of Holkar--it will, I feel certain, have an effect on the terms that he will lay down." Harry had, each day, paid a visit to the troopers, who were confined in a large airy room opening into the courtyard.

They had been well fed, and had been permitted to go out into the open air, for several hours a day, and to mingle freely with the Jat soldiers.


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