Besides, we should still have our badges of office, and Tippoo's official orders to the governors.
Possibly, the news that we had disappeared might reach the governors of some of the forts in this neighbourhood, but it would not be likely to travel very far.

His officers so frequently fall into disgrace, and are either killed or thrown to the tigers, that the fact of our being missing would scarce excite a remark, and those who heard of it would suppose that we had either been secretly made away with, or that, having learned that Tippoo was displeased with us, we had fled." Surajah nodded.

His confidence in his leader was complete, and he was always ready to follow unquestioningly.
"There is one thing, Surajah," Dick concluded.

"This state of things cannot last much longer, anyhow, for next time it might be me he ordered to see to the execution of an English prisoner, and that would mean that I should, as soon as I received the command, make a bolt for it.

So you see our stay here, in any case, may not last many days.