We were all expected to die of the plague, that's what we were, and I realised that Tommy Atkins was off the boards forever.
"We hadn't any more than got the cash and valuables ready to smuggle aboard, when down came Rasula upon us.

Ten o'clock last night, your lordship.

That's what it was--ten P.M.He had a dozen men with him and he told every mother's son of us that our presence in the town was not desired until after the ship had sailed away.

We were ordered to leave the town and go up into the hills under guard.

There wasn't any chance to fight or argue.