We replied that the report to us had stated, 'body of infant not found.' We, at his request, wrote to Bombay on the subject.
"The answer was as before that, although the body of the child was not found with those of its father and mother, no doubt whatever was entertained that it had been killed.

It was some days after the catastrophe happened before any report of it reached the authorities, when a party of cavalry were at once sent out.

Many of the bodies had been mutilated, and some almost devoured by jackals.
No doubts were entertained that the infant had been altogether devoured." "The remains were all buried at the spot where they were found; and a stone was erected, some months afterwards, by the officers of his regiment; recording the deaths of Major Lindsay, his wife and child, at that spot." Two days later Harry took his place with Abdool on the north coach and, after spending a day at Norwich, drove in a post chaise to Merdford.

Here he heard that Parley House was two miles distant and, without alighting, drove on there.

It was a fine house, standing in a well-wooded park.