It was a wild fight for a minute or two, and then a few of us made a sudden rush together, cut our way through the mutineers, and darted through an open window on to the parade.

There were shouts, shots, and screams from the officers' bungalows, and in several places flames were already rising.

What became of the other men I knew not; I made as hard as I could tear for the colonel's bungalow.

Suddenly I came upon a sowar sitting on his horse watching the rising flames.

Before he saw me I was on him, and ran him through.