He fought in the battle before Seringapatam, for the general and every one else had to fight, then." "How is it you come to be always with him ?" she asked.
"It first began when we went out on a scouting expedition together, before the English army went up the ghauts.

We volunteered to find out, if we could, which way the sultan's army was going.

We went through a good deal of danger together, and some hard fighting, and the Sahib was pleased with me; and since then we have always been together." "Tell me about that, Surajah ?" Surajah related the story of their capture and escape, of their making their way through the fort, and the subsequent pursuit, and their defence of the ruined hut.

Annie listened almost breathlessly.
"How I should like to have been with you," she said, when he finished.
"At least, I think I should have liked it.

I should have been dreadfully in the way, but I could have sat down in the hut and loaded the guns, while you were both fighting.