He saved himself by springing over a thick and thorny hedge on one side of the quadrangle, and ran round behind to the small door leading into the bathing-room, which he reached in time to assist Mrs.Ravenscroft to escape, as the dacoits were forcing their way through the screen into her bed-room from the sitting-room.

As soon as he saw her under the shade of the trees, beyond the blaze of the torches, he left her and her child, and the two female attendants, to the care of Mosahib, and went round to the entrance in search of her husband.

He had got to a tree, outside the entrance, into which Deena, Ensign Platt's servant, had climbed to save himself as soon as he saw his master attacked, and was leaning against it; but, on seeing Ensign Platt, he again staggered towards him, saying faintly _bus, bus_--enough, enough.

These were the last words he was heard to utter, and must have referred to the escape of his wife and child, of which he had become conscious.

By this time the gang had made off with the little booty they found.