39/46 Do you come to me on your own account, or from the sahib who commands ?" "I come on my own account," Bathurst said; "when I come as a messenger from him, I must come openly. I.know you to be an honorable man, and that I could say what I have to say to you and depart in safety. I regard you as one who has been misled, and regret for your sake that you should have been induced to take part with these mutineers against us. You have been told that it needed but an effort to overthrow the British Raj. |