Ah, what is that ?" Two musket shots in quick succession from the Sepoy lines broke the silence of the evening, and a startled exclamation burst from the girl standing near them.
The Doctor went over to her.
"Do you think--do you think," she said in a low, strained voice, "that it was Bathurst ?" "Not at all.

If they detected him, and I really do not see that there is a chance of their doing so, disguised as he was, they would have seized him and probably killed him, but there would be no firing.

He has gone unarmed, you know, and would offer no resistance.

Those shots you heard were doubtless the result of some drunken quarrel over the loot." "Do you really think so, Doctor ?" "I feel quite sure of it.

If it had been Forster who had gone out, and he had been detected, it would have been natural enough that we should hear the sound of something like a battle.