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Herbert Strang. Barclay of the Guides

Barclay of the Guides

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER THE FIRST

The Raid

CHAPTER THE SECOND

The Making of a Pathan

CHAPTER THE THIRD

Sky-high

CHAPTER THE FOURTH

The Return of Sherdil

CHAPTER THE FIFTH

Reprisals

CHAPTER THE SIXTH

In the Nets

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH

Jan Larrens

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH

A Competition Wallah

CHAPTER THE NINTH

A Fakir

CHAPTER THE TENTH

The Delhi Road

CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH

The Missy Sahib

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH

Bluff

CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH

Some Lathi-wallahs and a Camel

CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH

Kaluja Dass, Khansaman

CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH

Within the Gates

CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH

The Coming of Bakht Khan

CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH

The Doctor's Divan

CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH

The Spoilers Spoiled

CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH

Asadullah

CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH

Wolf and Jackal

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST

Master and Servant

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND

The Fight of Bakr-Id

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD

Ordeal

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH

Nikalsain

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH

The Storming of Delhi

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH

Eighty to One

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH

Duty

EPILOGUE

GLOSSARY

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Herbert Strang

Published by Good Press, 2019

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A great hope sprang up in his mind. It might be Rahmut returning with his men. True, it might be a band belonging to another chief, or even a troop of British horsemen, or of natives in the British pay. Keen as his eyes were, it was impossible at this distance—at least twelve miles, as he judged—to tell who the men were. But they were certainly approaching, though very slowly; they were coming from the very quarter whence his father would return, there was at least a good chance that they were friends. He ran down at once to the room where Ahsan and the rest were awaiting his return, and told them of what he had seen. They went back with him and looked eagerly across the plain. The horsemen appeared to have halted, they were no nearer than when he had seen them last; none of his comrades was better able than he to identify them.

"Let us make a beacon here," said one of the men. "If they are our own people they will ride at once to our help; if they are not, we shall be none the worse off."

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