If the trouble begins in the daytime--that is, if it does begin, for the native officers assure us that we can trust implicitly in the loyalty of the men--there will probably be time for everyone to gain the courthouse; if it is at night, and without warning, as it was at Meerut, I can only say, Doctor, may God help us all, for I fear that few, if any, of us would get there alive.

Certainly not enough to make any efficient defense." "I do not see that there is anything else to do, Major.

I trust with you that the men will prove faithful; if not, it is a black lookout whichever way we take it." "Did you kill the tiger, Doctor ?" "Yes; at least Bathurst and I did it between us.

I wounded him first.

It then sprang upon Bathurst's elephant, and he speared it, and I finished it with a shot through the head." "Speared it!" the Major repeated; "why didn't he shoot it.