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now, during the early days of the outbreak, for which they received a handsome reward, While waiting for their money in the verandah of the commissioner's house, they fell into conversation with certain of their fellow-villagers among his seryants. ‘“ We like our colonel,” said they, “and will “not allow him to be harmed; but if the whole “ army tums, we must turn too.” A week elapsed, and these men looked quietly on from their saddles, while Colonel Fisher was shot to death by a scoundrel in the lines of the military police. Then they threw aside all semblance of discipline, murdered the second in command, and shouted to the adjutant, who was a general favourite, to ride and begone, if he desired to spare them the pain of taking his life. At one large station the men were in open mutiny, and the officers had grouped themselves in front of the battalion, expecting every moment the fatal volley. They agreed, however, not to abandon hope until they had witnessed the effect produced by the presence of a captain of old standing in the service, who was apparently loved and trusted by the whole regiment, and especially by the grenadier company, to which he had been attached for many years. When his approach was announced, every eye turned towards his bungalow, which stood on the parade-ground, close to that flank where the
