In Times of Peril: A Tale of India

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Henty George Alfred. In Times of Peril: A Tale of India

CHAPTER I. LIFE IN CANTONMENTS

CHAPTER II. THE OUTBREAK

CHAPTER III. THE FLIGHT

CHAPTER IV. BROKEN DOWN

CHAPTER V. BACK UNDER THE FLAG

CHAPTER VI. A DASHING EXPEDITION

CHAPTER VII. DELHI

CHAPTER VIII. A DESPERATE DEFENSE

CHAPTER IX. SAVE BY A TIGER

CHAPTER X. TREACHERY

CHAPTER XI. RETRIBUTION BEGINS

CHAPTER XII. DANGEROUS SERVICE

CHAPTER XIII. LUCKNOW

CHAPTER XIV. THE BESIEGED RESIDENCY

CHAPTER XV. SPIKING THE GUNS

CHAPTER XVI. A SORTIE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER XVII. OUT OF LUCKNOW

CHAPTER XVIII. THE STORMING OF DELHI

CHAPTER XIX. A RIOT AT CAWNPORE

CHAPTER XX. THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW

CHAPTER XXI. A SAD PARTING

CHAPTER XXII. THE LAST CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW

CHAPTER XXIII. A DESPERATE DEFENSE

CHAPTER XXIV. BEST AFTER LABOR

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A week after the boar-hunt came the news that a Sepoy named Mangul Pandy, belonging to the Thirty-fourth Native Infantry, stationed at Barrackpore, a place only a few miles out of Calcutta, had, on the 29th of March, rushed out upon the parade ground and called upon the men to mutiny. He then shot the European sergeant-major of the regiment, and cut down an officer. Pandy continued to exhort the men to rise to arms, and although his comrades would not join him, they refused to make any movement to arrest him. General Hearsey now arrived on the parade ground with his son and a Major Ross, and at once rode at the man, who, finding that his comrades would not assist him, discharged the contents of the musket into his own body.

Two days later the mutinous Nineteenth were disbanded at Barrackpore. On the 3rd of April Mangul Pandy, who had only wounded himself, was hung, and the same doom was allotted to a native officer of his regiment, for refusing to order the men to assist the officer attacked by that mutineer, and for himself inciting the men to rise against the government.

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In the meantime Saba had faithfully carried out her commission as to the dresses, and had added to the bundles a bottle containing a brown juice which she had extracted from some berries; this was to be used for staining the skin, and so completing the disguise. The Warreners knew that if their old nurse had any information as to any intended outbreak she would let them know; but she heard nothing. She was known to be so strongly attached to the major's family that, had the other servants known anything of it, they would have kept it from her.

The hour for the mess-dinner was eight, and the young Warreners had finished their evening meal before their father started.

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