Chapter I: Preface
The great Mutiny embraced so wide an area, in which momentous events happened almost simultaneously in places far apart, that it seemed advisable to confine the historical background of this story to the siege of Delhi, the city which was the heart of the rebellion. In regard to the historical persons introduced, care has been taken to adhere as closely as possible to facts; and, where the romancer's licence must needs put words into their mouths, to conform to probability and their known characters. If the boys who read these pages should care to know more of the great men of whom they get glimpses, they will find a store of good things in _Lumsden of the Guides_, by Sir Peter Lumsden and George R. Elsmie; the _Memoirs of Sir Henry Daly_, by Major H. Daly; _A Leader of Light Horse_ (Hodson), and the _Life of John Nicholson_, both by Lieut.-Colonel Trotter. The history of the Mutiny, as related in the pages of Kaye and Malleson, will never lose its fascination.
HERBERT STRANG
CONTENTS
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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