I think the best plan will be for one of our number to try to make his way out, and go either to Lucknow, Agra, or Allahabad, and try and get help.
If they could spare a troop of cavalry it might be sufficient; the mutineers have suffered very heavily; there were over a hundred and fifty bodies carried out today, and if attacked suddenly I don't think they would make any great resistance.

We may hold out for a week or ten days, but I think that is the outside; and if rescue does not arrive by that time we must either surrender or try to escape by that passage." There was a general assent.
"Bathurst would be the man to do it," the Doctor said.

"Once through their lines he could pass without exciting the slightest suspicion; he could buy a horse then, and could be at any of the stations in two days." "Yes, there is no doubt that he is the man to do it," the Major said.
"Where is he now ?" "At work as usual, Major; shall I go and speak to him?
But I tell you fairly I don't think he will undertake it." "Why not, Doctor?
It is a dangerous mission, but no more dangerous than remaining here." "Well, we shall see," the Doctor said, as he left the group.
Nothing was said for a few minutes, the men sitting or lying about smoking.

Presently the Doctor returned.
"Bathurst refuses absolutely," he said.

"He admits that he does not think there would be much difficulty for him to get through, but he is convinced that the mission would be a useless one, and that could help have been spared it would have come to us before now." "But in that case he would have made his escape," the Major said.
"That is just why he won't go, Major; he says that come what will he will share the fate of the rest, and that he will not live to be pointed to as the one man who made his escape of the garrison of Deennugghur." "Whom can we send ?" the Major said.