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Whites will be destroyed.
Rising at Deennugghur at daylight tomorrow.
Troops, after killing whites, will join those at Cawnpore.
Be warned in time--this tiger is not to be beaten off with a whip." "Good Heavens!" the Major exclaimed; "can this be true? Can it be possible that the Rajah of Bithoor is going to join the mutineers? It is impossible; he could never be such a scoundrel." "What is it, uncle ?" Isobel asked, leaving her seat and coming up to him. The Major translated the letter. "It must be a hoax," he went on; "I cannot believe it.
What does this stuff about beating a tiger with a whip mean ?" "I am sorry to say, Major Hannay, that part of the letter convinces me that the contents can be implicitly relied upon.
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