I rather fancy that they will decide to go back at once.

News flies very fast in India.

I think the Major would like that he and his officers should be back before it is whispered among the Sepoys that the discontent has not, as we hoped, everywhere ceased." "It must be very serious," Isobel said, "or uncle would never decide to go back, when all the preparations are made." "It would never do, you see, Miss Hannay, for the Commandant and four of the officers to be away, if the Sepoys should take it into their heads to refuse to receive cartridges or anything of that sort." "You can't give us any particulars, then, Mr.Bathurst ?" "The note was a very short one, and was partly made up of unconfirmed rumors.

As I only saw it in my capacity of a messenger, I don't think I am at liberty to say more than that." "What a trouble the Sepoys are," Mary Hunter said pettishly; "it is too bad our losing a tiger hunt when we may never have another chance to see one!" "That is a very minor trouble, Mary." "I don't think so," the girl said; "just at present it seems to me to be very serious." At this moment the Doctor put his head out of the tent.
"Will you come in, Bathurst ?" "We have settled, Bathurst," the Major said, when he entered, "that we must, of course, go back at once.

The Doctor, however, is of opinion that if, after all the preparations were made, we were to put the tiger hunt off altogether, it would set the natives talking, and the report would go through the country like wildfire that some great disaster had happened.