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AT JELLALABAD. 'Well, Colville, how do you like India from what you have seen of it?' asked Colonel Spatterdash, as he sat smoking in his shirt and pyjamas, for, though the month was March…
THE HADJI. 'The world is a small place, after all!' thought Colville, as he left the Colonel's bungalow behind him. 'Think of hearing here that anecdote of dear Mary's fathe…
A FIGHT WITH THE MOHMUNDS. Save for flying rumours cantonment life at Jellalabad had been a little monotonous for some time past. Paper hunts had been resorted to, and polo was played every afternoo…
IN THE LUGHMAN VALLEY. The death of the Ameer, and succession of his son, Yakoub Khan, were now confirmed beyond all doubt at Jellalabad; but troubles and skirmishes seemed to be on the increase, an…
THE FANCY BALL. From such a scene as that in the Lughman Valley we gladly turn to one of a very different kind. It was an evening of the early days of April, when the elms begin to show their half-…
THE 10TH HUSSARS. And now to detail how the catastrophe referred to came about. The evening of Monday, the 31st of March, saw Leslie Colville in his saddle, and busy conveying orders in the camp an…
LOST. Damped and disconcerted by the sudden hopelessness of his regard for Mary Wellwood on learning that she was betrothed to another, the young baron—after leaving cards subsequent to the night of…
THE SEQUEL. Ellinor's sketching, as we have said, did not progress much. She was full of thoughts, yet none of pride, of flattered vanity, or exultation were in her mind, but a dull and curiou…
THE HAKIM ABOU AYOUB. 'I am on the eve of departing with Sir Louis Cavagnari to Cabul,' Colville had written. 'With his mission the chances of future war are over, and then I can come…
AT CABUL. For Robert Wodrow to attempt to make his way alone to where his regiment was now quartered far in the rear, through passes filled by savage tribes, was not to be thought of; thus nothing w…
