He asks that you will formulate your demands." "Your news is very welcome, Major Lindsay; for indeed, I am as anxious to be off as the rajah can be to see me go.

Scindia is giving trouble again, and has written a letter couched in such arrogant terms that it is virtually a declaration of war.

I could not leave here until the town was captured; for it would have seemed to all India that we had been defeated, and would have been a terrible blow to our prestige.

Therefore, at all costs, I must have taken the place.

It will, however, be another fortnight before we shall be ready to recommence the siege.
"I do not wish to be hard on the rajah, and I know that the authorities at Calcutta view the case in the light that he has put it, and are willing to believe that his turning against us was not an act of deliberate treachery, but a fear of Holkar.
"His treatment of you and your escort is, in itself, much in his favour.