The inclosure below them was shallower now from the number that had fallen, and was filled with a confused mass of struggling men.

In their midst was Bathurst fighting desperately with his short weapon, and bringing down a man at every blow, the mutineers being too crowded together to use their unfixed bayonets against him.

In a moment Captain Forster leaped down, sword in hand, and joined Bathurst in the fight.
"Stand steady," the Major shouted; "don't let another man move." But the missiles still rained down with an occasional shot, as the rifles were handed up by the natives, while the Doctor and Farquharson kept up an almost continuous fire from the terrace.

Then the two last canisters thrown by the Major exploded.

The first two had carried havoc among the crowd behind the breach, these completed their confusion, and they turned and fled; while those in the retrenchment, relieved of the pressure from behind, at once turned, and flying through the breach, followed their companions.
A loud cheer broke from the garrison, and the Major looking round saw the Doctor standing by the parapet waving his hat, while Isobel stood beside him looking down at the scene of conflict.
"Lie down, Isobel," he shouted; "they will be opening fire again directly." The girl disappeared, and almost at the same moment the batteries spoke out again, and a crackle of the musketry began from the gardens.