We have agreed all along that when we could no longer resist we would offer to surrender on the terms that our lives should be spared, and that we should be given safe conduct down the country, and that if those terms were refused we were to resist to the end, and then blow up the house and all in it.

I think the time has come for raising the white flag." "I think so," the Doctor said: "we have done everything men could do.
I have little hope that they will grant us terms of surrender; for from the native servants who have deserted us they must have a fair idea of our condition.

What do you think, Bathurst ?" "I think it probable there are divisions among them," he replied; "the Talookdars may have risen against us, but I do not think they can have the same deadly enmity the Sepoys have shown.

They must be heartily sick of this prolonged siege, and they have lost large numbers of their men.
I should say they would be willing enough to give terms, but probably they are overruled by the Sepoys, and perhaps by orders from Nana Sahib.
I know several of them personally, and I think I could influence Por Sing, who is certainly the most powerful of the Zemindars of this neighborhood, and is probably looked upon as their natural leader; if you approve of it, Major, I will go out in disguise, and endeavor to obtain an interview with him.

He is an honorable man; and if he will give his guarantee for our safety, I would trust him.