I will ask you to allow Havildar Abdool to go with me.

I don't know whether he will wish to take his discharge, but I should think he would do so and, as he belongs properly to the Bombay army, and is indeed a Mahratta, I am sure that he would prefer to settle there." "I will certainly do that, and will see that the services he has rendered are mentioned in his discharge; and I will, myself, write to the Government of Bombay, saying that I had intended to grant him a small holding, as a reward for his fidelity; and asking that this may be bestowed upon him, either in the Concan, or in some of the territory that we have become possessed of above the Ghauts." Abdool was greatly moved, when Harry told him that he had applied for and obtained leave.
"You will take me with you, master, I hope ?" "I think, Abdool, that you would do better to remain in your own country.

You would feel very strange in England, among people none of whom speak your language.

You would also feel the cold, greatly." "I would rather go with you, sahib.

Were I to go back to my native village, I should find myself among strangers, for I have now been nearly fifteen years away; and what should I do without employment ?" "Well, we will think it over, Abdool.