"Though there is peace now, I fancy we should not get much farther than that fort ahead, if they guessed that we were the fellows who gave them such trouble, two years and a half ago." "There is no fear of our being recognised," Surajah said.

"The guard has probably been changed, long ago.

Besides, they never once caught sight of our faces." "Oh, no; we are safe enough," Dick agreed.

"If I had not been sure of that, we would have gone up one of the passes to the south, that has been ceded to us, though it would have been a great deal longer round to Bangalore--unless, indeed, we had gone by Kistnagherry, and that would have been too dangerous to attempt, for the officers on the frontier would probably have recognised us." It was late in the afternoon before they arrived at the gate.

It stood open, and there was no sentry on duty.