d you to come together, and if you don't do so I shall say you are
the most wrong headed young people I ever met. He loves you, and I don't
think there is any question about your feelings, and you ought to make
matters right somehow. Unfortunately, he is a singularly pig headed man
when he gets an idea in his mind. However, I hope that it will come all
right. By the way, he asked were you well enough to see him today?"

"I would rather not see him till tomorrow," the girl said.

"And I think too that you had better not see him until tomorrow, Isobel.
Your cheeks are flushed now, and your hands are trembling, and I do not
want you laid up again, so I order you to keep yourself perfectly quiet
for the rest of the day."

But it was not till two days later that Bathurst came up to see her.

The spies brought in, late that evening, the news that a small party of
the Sepoy cavalry, with two guns, were at a village three miles on the
other side of the town, and were in communication with the disaffected.
It was decided at once by the officer who had succeeded General Neil
in the command of the fort that a small party of fifty infantry,
accompanied by ten or twelve mounted volunteers, should go out and
attack them. Bathurst sent in his name to form one of the party as soon
as he learned the news, borrowing the horse of an officer who was laid
up ill.

The expedition started two hours before daybreak, and, making a long
detour, fell upon the Sepoys at seven o'clock. The latter, who had
received news half an hour before of their approach, made a stand,
relying on their cannon. The infantry, however, moved forward in
skirmishing order, their fire quickly silenced the guns, and they then
rushed forward while the little troop of volunteers charged.

The fight lasted but a few minutes, at the end of which time the enemy
galloped off in all directions, leaving their guns in the hands of the
victors. Four of the infantry had been killed by the explosion of a well
aimed shell, and five of the volunteers were wounded in the hand to hand
fight with the sowars. The Sepoys' guns and artillery horses had been
captured.

The party at once set out on their return. On their way they had some
skirmishing with the rabble of the town, who had heard the firing, but
they were beaten off without much difficulty, and the victors re-entered
the fort in triumph. The Doctor was at the gate as they came in.
Bathurst sprang from his horse and held o