mething, even if that something led
to his detention and death. He said to himself that he should not care
so that Isobel Hannay did but know that he had died in trying to rescue
her.

The sun rose, and he saw the peasants in the fields, and caught the note
of a bugle sounding from the lines at Cawnpore. At last--it had seemed
to him an age, but the sun had been up only an hour--he saw a figure
coming along the river bank. As it approached he told himself that it
was the juggler; if so, he had laid aside the garments in which he last
saw him, and was now attired as when they first met. When he saw him
turn off from the river bank and advance straight towards the wood, he
had no doubt that it was the man he expected.

"Thanks be to the holy ones that you have escaped, sahib," Rujub said,
as soon as he came within speaking distance of Bathurst. "I was in
an agony last night. I was with you in thought, and saw the boats
approaching the ambuscade. I saw you leap over and swim to shore. I saw
you fall, and I cried out. For a moment I thought you were killed. Then
I saw you go on and fall again, and saw your friends carry you in. I
watched you recover and come on here, and then I willed it that you
should wait here till I came for you. I have brought you a disguise, for
I did not know that you had one with you. But, first of all, sit down
and let me dress your wound afresh. I have brought all that is necessary
for it."

"You are a true fried, Rujub. I relied upon you for aid; do you know why
I waited here instead of going down with the others?"

"I know, sahib. I can tell your thoughts as easily when you are away
from me as I can when we are together."

"Can you do this with all people?"

"No, my lord; to be able to read another's thoughts it is necessary
there should be a mystic relation established between them. As I walked
beside your horse when you carried my daughter before you after saving
her life, I felt that this relation had commenced, and that henceforward
our fates were connected. It was necessary that you should have
confidence in me, and it was for that reason that I showed you some of
the feats that we rarely exhibit, and proved to you that I possessed
powers with which you were unacquainted. But in thought reading my
daughter has greater powers than I have, and it was she who last night
followed you on your journey, sitting with her hand in mine, so that my
mind followed hers."

"Do you know all that