lf; but I question
whether Bathurst's is not a higher type of courage."

"Well, I don't aspire to Bathurst's type of courage, Doctor," Forster
said, with a short laugh.

But the Doctor did not answer. He had already turned away, and was
making for the stairs.

"May I go with you, Doctor?" Isobel Hannay said, following him. "It is
very hot down here."

"Yes; come along, child; but there is no time to lose, for Bathurst
must be near where they are likely to have posted their sentries by this
time."

"Everything quiet, Wilson?" he asked the young subaltern, who, with
another, was on guard on the roof.

"Yes; we have heard nothing except a few distant shouts and noises out
at the lines. Round here there has been nothing moving, except that we
heard someone go out into the garden just now."

"I went out with Bathurst," the Doctor said. "He has gone in the
disguise of a native to the Sepoy lines, to find out what are their
intentions."

"I heard the talk over it, Doctor. I only came up on watch a few minutes
since. I thought it was most likely him when I heard the steps."

"I hope he is beyond the sentries," the Doctor said. "I have come up
here to listen."

"I expect he is through them before this," Wilson said confidently. "I
wish I could have gone with him; but of course it would not have been
any good. It is a beautiful night--isn't it, Miss Hannay?--and there is
scarcely any dew falling."

"Now, you go off to your post in the corner, Wilson. Your instructions
are to listen for the slightest sound, and to assure us against the
Sepoys creeping up to the walls. We did not come up here to distract you
from your duties, or to gossip."

"There are Richards and another posted somewhere in the garden," Wilson
said. "Still, I suppose you are right, Doctor; but if you, Miss Hannay,
have come up to listen, come and sit in my corner; it is the one nearest
to the lines."

"You may as well go and sit down, Isobel," the Doctor said; "that is,
if you intend to stay up here long;" and they went across with Wilson to
his post.

"Shall I put one of these sandbags for you to sit on?"

"I would rather stand, thank you;" and they stood for some time silently
watching the fires in the lines.

"They are drawing pretty heavily on the wood stores," the Doctor
growled; "there is a good deal more than the regulation allowance
blazing in those fires. I can make out a lot of figures moving about
round them; no doubt numbers of