uilders and decorators, he went up
to town again. However, he frequently ran down to see how things
were getting on and, before the alterations were all finished, Mary
had consented to become its mistress.

Abdool preferred to remain as his master's body servant, as before.
He had even, before leaving India, picked up a certain amount of
English; and had improved considerably his knowledge of the
language during the long voyage. Mary, fortunately, had not shared
in her mother's feelings about him but, on learning that he had,
several times, saved Harry's life, had taken to him greatly. He
never returned to his native land.

And although Harry and his wife talked, sometimes, of making the
voyage to India, they were never enabled to accomplish it for, as
children grew up around them, Mary was no longer free to travel.
Abdool's devotion was now divided between his master and mistress
and the little ones, who were never tired of listening to his
stories of their father's adventures.

Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay lived to an advanced age, and died within a
few weeks of each other. Harry then moved to Parley Hall, and sold
the estate he had bought; as the management of one estate, and his
duties as county magistrate, occupied as much time as he cared to
give. The only complaint made against him, by his neighbours, was
that he did not care for field sports. But, as he said, he had seen
enough bloodshed to last him his lifetime; and would neither shed
the blood of bird nor beast, though he had no quarrel with those
who liked that sort of thing.

He kept up a regular correspondence, to the end of her life, with
his old nurse; and his interest in his Indian friends never abated.
He was an old man when the Indian mutiny broke out, and two of his
grandsons took their share in the long siege of Delhi, and served
with both the forces which, under Sir Colin Campbell, fought their
way into Lucknow, and finally broke the neck of the Sepoy mutiny.

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