[Rung Ho! by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookRung Ho! CHAPTER XXXII 22/32
A moment later it was moving at a gallop; two minutes later it was backed against the wall, and Rosemary McClean stepped out behind three protecting squadrons that had not suffered perceptibly from what they would have scorned to call a battle. "Now all together!" shouted Cunningham, whose theories on the value of seconds when tackling reforming infantry were worthy of the Duke of Wellington, or any other officer who knew his business; and again he led his men at a breakneck charge.
This time Jaimihr's disheartened little army did not wait for him, but broke into wild confusion and scattered right and left, leaving their elephants to be captured.
There were only a few men killed.
The lance-tipped, roaring whirlwind loosed itself for the most part against nothing, and reformed uninjured to trot back again.
Cunningham told off two troops to pursue fugitives and keep their eyes open for the Prince before he rode back to examine the breach in the wall that Jaimihr had been to so much trouble about making. He had halted to peer through the break in the age-old masonry when Mahommed Gunga spurred up close to him, touched his arm, and pointed. "Look, sahib! Look!" Jaimihr--and no one but a wizard could have told how he had managed to get to where he was unobserved--was riding as a man rides at a tent-peg, crouching low, full-pelt for Rosemary McClean! Cunningham's spurs went home before the word was out of Mahommed Gunga's mouth, and Mahommed Gunga raced behind him; but Jaimihr had the start of them.
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