He had run down, first, to tell Surajah to come up with him, but found that he had already gone to his father's apartments.
"Well, Dick," the Rajah said, as he entered, "I was prepared, after hearing of that tiger adventure, and of you and Surajah being colonels in Tippoo's household, for almost anything; but I certainly never dreamt of your returning here with an English girl." "I suppose not, Uncle.

Such a thing certainly never entered into my calculations.

I did not even know there was a white girl in the Palace, until one day she stopped me, as I was passing along the corridor near the harem, to thank me for saving her life--for it was this girl that the tiger had struck down, and was standing upon, when I fired at him.

Of course, she had no idea that I was English.

We only said a few words then, for if I had been seen talking to a slave girl belonging to the harem, I might have got into a scrape.