Coward, indeed! Mr.
Bathurst may be nervous, but I am sure he has as much courage as anyone here.

Come, Isobel, you were up all last night, and it's past two o'clock now.

We must try to get a little sleep before morning, and I should advise everyone else off duty to do the same." At daybreak firing commenced, and was kept up energetically all the morning.

At two o'clock a white flag was hoisted from the terrace, and its appearance was greeted with shouts of triumph by the assailants.

The firing at once ceased, and in a few minutes a native officer carrying a white flag advanced towards the walls.
"We wish to see the Zemindar Por Sing," Bathurst said, "to treat with him upon the subject of our surrender." The officer withdrew, and returned in half an hour saying that he would conduct the officer in command to the presence of the chief of the besieging force.