need not look at the worst side of things. Well, I will go
with you to the orderly room, and will talk with you about the hospital
scheme, mention that there is a rumor of cholera, and so on, and ask
if I can't have a part of the courthouse; then we can walk across there
together, and see what arrangement had best be made."

The following day brought another dispatch from the Colonel, saying that
the rumors as to Delhi were confirmed. The regiments there had joined
the Meerut mutineers, had shot down their officers, and murdered
every European they could lay hands on; that three officers and six
noncommissioned officers, who were in charge of the arsenal, had
defended it desperately, and had finally blown up the magazine with
hundreds of its assailants. Three of the defenders had reached Meerut
with the news.

Day by day the gloom thickened. The native regiments in the Punjaub rose
as soon as the news from Meerut and Delhi reached them, but there were
white troops there, and they were used energetically and promptly. In
some places the mutineers were disarmed before they broke out into open
violence; in other cases mutinous regiments were promptly attacked and
scattered. Several of the leading chiefs had hastened to assure the
Government of their fidelity, and had placed their troops and resources
at its disposal.

But in the Punjaub alone the lookout appeared favorable. In the Daob
a mutiny had taken place at four of the stations, and the Sepoys had
marched away to Delhi, but without injuring the Europeans.

After this for a week there was quiet, and then at places widely
apart--at Hansid and Hissar, to the northwest of Delhi; at Nusserabad,
in the center of Rajpootana, at Bareilly, and other stations in
Rohilcund--the Sepoys rose, and in most places massacre was added
to mutiny. Then three regiments of the Gwalior contingent at Neemuch
revolted. Then two regiments broke out at Jhansi, and the whole of
the Europeans, after desperately defending themselves for four days,
surrendered on promise of their lives, but were instantly murdered.

But before the news of the Jhansi massacre reached Deennugghur they
heard of other risings nearer to them. On the 30th of May the three
native regiments at Lucknow rose, but were sharply repulsed by the 300
European troops under Sir Henry Lawrence. At Seetapoor the Sepoys rose
on the 3d of June and massacred all the Europeans. On the 4th the Sepoys
at Mohundee imitated the example