I expect they are dividing the spoil and quarreling over it; anyhow, they have had enough of it for today.

They may intend to march away in the morning, or they may have sent to Cawnpore to ask for orders, or they may have heard from some of the Zemindars that they are coming in to join them--that is what Bathurst has gone out to learn; but anyhow I do not think they will attack us again with their present force." "I wish there were a few more of us," Wilson said, "so that we could venture on a sortie." "So do I, lad; but it is no use thinking about it as it is.

We have to wait; our fate is not in our own hands." "And you think matters look bad, Doctor ?" "I think they could hardly look worse.

Unless the mutineers take it into their heads to march away, there is, humanly speaking, but one chance for us, and that is that Lawrence may thrash the Sepoys so completely at Lucknow that he may be able to send out a force to bring us in.

The chances of that are next to nothing; for in addition to a very large Sepoy force he has the population of Lucknow--one of the most turbulent in India--on his hands.