[At the Point of the Bayonet by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookAt the Point of the Bayonet CHAPTER 5: Down To Bombay 11/28
Bajee Rao was brought back to Beema, eighteen miles from Poona.
His brother Amrud, and Rao Phurkay, were also released. Nana joined his army at the Salpee Ghaut, and Scindia's infantry, under Mr.Boyd, marched for the capital; which Nana refused to enter, however, until he had received a formal declaration, from Bajee, that he intended no treachery against him.
This pledge was given; and a treaty was, at the same time, entered into by the Nizam and Scindia, both agreeing to establish Bajee Rao on the musnud, and reinstate Nana as his prime minister.
These matters being settled, Nana returned to Poona, from which he had been absent for nearly a year, and resumed the duties of prime minister. A fortnight later, Bajee Rao was solemnly invested as Peishwa.
One of his first acts was to send for Harry, to whom he gave a robe of honour, and thirty thousand rupees in money, in token of his gratitude for the risk he had run in communicating with him, and for his daring proposal to rescue him from the hands of his escort. On the day after Nana's re-entry into the capital, Harry received a note from Mr.Malet, asking him to call. "I expect Colonel Palmer to relieve me of my duties here, in the course of a day or two.
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