I heard from Mrs.Hunter that it was you and the Doctor who rushed forward and drew me back." "It is not worth talking about," Captain Forster said carelessly.

"You seemed bent on making a target of yourself; and as the Major's orders were that everyone was to lie down, there was nothing for it but to remove you." Bathurst turned to Dr.Wade.

"Will you superintend my get up, Doctor ?" "Certainly," the Doctor said, with alacrity.

"I will guarantee that, with the aid of my boy, I will turn you out so that no one would know you even in broad daylight, to say nothing of the dark." A quarter of an hour sufficed to metamorphose Bathurst into an Oude peasant.

He did not return to the room, but, accompanied by the Doctor, made his way to the tree he had spoken of.
"By the way, you have taken no arms," the Doctor said suddenly.
"They would be useless, Doctor; if I am recognized I shall be killed; if I am not discovered, and the chances are very slight of my being so, I shall get back safely.