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“
You
forget
that
we
know
nothing
of
all
this
,
”
said
Holmes
quietly
.
“
We
have
not
heard
your
story
,
and
we
cannot
tell
how
far
justice
may
originally
have
been
on
your
side
.
”
“
Well
,
sir
,
you
have
been
very
fair
-
spoken
to
me
,
though
I
can
see
that
I
have
you
to
thank
that
I
have
these
bracelets
upon
my
wrists
.
Still
,
I
bear
no
grudge
for
that
.
It
is
all
fair
and
above
-
board
.
If
you
want
to
hear
my
story
I
have
no
wish
to
hold
it
back
.
What
I
say
to
you
is
God
’
s
truth
,
every
word
of
it
.
Thank
you
;
you
can
put
the
glass
beside
me
here
,
and
I
’
ll
put
my
lips
to
it
if
I
am
dry
.
“
I
am
a
Worcestershire
man
myself
,
—
born
near
Pershore
.
I
dare
say
you
would
find
a
heap
of
Smalls
living
there
now
if
you
were
to
look
.
I
have
often
thought
of
taking
a
look
round
there
,
but
the
truth
is
that
I
was
never
much
of
a
credit
to
the
family
,
and
I
doubt
if
they
would
be
so
very
glad
to
see
me
.
They
were
all
steady
,
chapel
-
going
folk
,
small
farmers
,
well
-
known
and
respected
over
the
country
-
side
,
while
I
was
always
a
bit
of
a
rover
.
At
last
,
however
,
when
I
was
about
eighteen
,
I
gave
them
no
more
trouble
,
for
I
got
into
a
mess
over
a
girl
,
and
could
only
get
out
of
it
again
by
taking
the
Queen
’
s
shilling
and
joining
the
3rd
Buffs
,
which
was
just
starting
for
India
.
“
I
wasn
’
t
destined
to
do
much
soldiering
,
however
.
I
had
just
got
past
the
goose
-
step
,
and
learned
to
handle
my
musket
,
when
I
was
fool
enough
to
go
swimming
in
the
Ganges
.
Luckily
for
me
,
my
company
sergeant
,
John
Holder
,
was
in
the
water
at
the
same
time
,
and
he
was
one
of
the
finest
swimmers
in
the
service
.
A
crocodile
took
me
,
just
as
I
was
half
-
way
across
,
and
nipped
off
my
right
leg
as
clean
as
a
surgeon
could
have
done
it
,
just
above
the
knee
.
What
with
the
shock
and
the
loss
of
blood
,
I
fainted
,
and
should
have
drowned
if
Holder
had
not
caught
hold
of
me
and
paddled
for
the
bank
.
I
was
five
months
in
hospital
over
it
,
and
when
at
last
I
was
able
to
limp
out
of
it
with
this
timber
toe
strapped
to
my
stump
I
found
myself
invalided
out
of
the
army
and
unfitted
for
any
active
occupation
.
“
I
was
,
as
you
can
imagine
,
pretty
down
on
my
luck
at
this
time
,
for
I
was
a
useless
cripple
though
not
yet
in
my
twentieth
year
.
However
,
my
misfortune
soon
proved
to
be
a
blessing
in
disguise
.
A
man
named
Abel
White
,
who
had
come
out
there
as
an
indigo
-
planter
,
wanted
an
overseer
to
look
after
his
coolies
and
keep
them
up
to
their
work
.
He
happened
to
be
a
friend
of
our
colonel
’
s
,
who
had
taken
an
interest
in
me
since
the
accident
.
To
make
a
long
story
short
,
the
colonel
recommended
me
strongly
for
the
post
and
,
as
the
work
was
mostly
to
be
done
on
horseback
,
my
leg
was
no
great
obstacle
,
for
I
had
enough
knee
left
to
keep
good
grip
on
the
saddle
.
What
I
had
to
do
was
to
ride
over
the
plantation
,
to
keep
an
eye
on
the
men
as
they
worked
,
and
to
report
the
idlers
.
The
pay
was
fair
,
I
had
comfortable
quarters
,
and
altogether
I
was
content
to
spend
the
remainder
of
my
life
in
indigo
-
planting
.
Mr
.
Abel
White
was
a
kind
man
,
and
he
would
often
drop
into
my
little
shanty
and
smoke
a
pipe
with
me
,
for
white
folk
out
there
feel
their
hearts
warm
to
each
other
as
they
never
do
here
at
home
.
“
Well
,
I
was
never
in
luck
’
s
way
long
.
Suddenly
,
without
a
note
of
warning
,
the
great
mutiny
broke
upon
us
.
One
month
India
lay
as
still
and
peaceful
,
to
all
appearance
,
as
Surrey
or
Kent
;
the
next
there
were
two
hundred
thousand
black
devils
let
loose
,
and
the
country
was
a
perfect
hell
.
Of
course
you
know
all
about
it
,
gentlemen
,
—
a
deal
more
than
I
do
,
very
like
,
since
reading
is
not
in
my
line
.
I
only
know
what
I
saw
with
my
own
eyes
.
Our
plantation
was
at
a
place
called
Muttra
,
near
the
border
of
the
Northwest
Provinces
.
Night
after
night
the
whole
sky
was
alight
with
the
burning
bungalows
,
and
day
after
day
we
had
small
companies
of
Europeans
passing
through
our
estate
with
their
wives
and
children
,
on
their
way
to
Agra
,
where
were
the
nearest
troops
.
Mr
.
Abel
White
was
an
obstinate
man
.
He
had
it
in
his
head
that
the
affair
had
been
exaggerated
,
and
that
it
would
blow
over
as
suddenly
as
it
had
sprung
up
.
There
he
sat
on
his
veranda
,
drinking
whiskey
-
pegs
and
smoking
cheroots
,
while
the
country
was
in
a
blaze
about
him
.
Of
course
we
stuck
by
him
,
I
and
Dawson
,
who
,
with
his
wife
,
used
to
do
the
book
-
work
and
the
managing
.
Well
,
one
fine
day
the
crash
came
.
I
had
been
away
on
a
distant
plantation
,
and
was
riding
slowly
home
in
the
evening
,
when
my
eye
fell
upon
something
all
huddled
together
at
the
bottom
of
a
steep
nullah
.
I
rode
down
to
see
what
it
was
,
and
the
cold
struck
through
my
heart
when
I
found
it
was
Dawson
’
s
wife
,
all
cut
into
ribbons
,
and
half
eaten
by
jackals
and
native
dogs
.
A
little
further
up
the
road
Dawson
himself
was
lying
on
his
face
,
quite
dead
,
with
an
empty
revolver
in
his
hand
and
four
Sepoys
lying
across
each
other
in
front
of
him
.
I
reined
up
my
horse
,
wondering
which
way
I
should
turn
,
but
at
that
moment
I
saw
thick
smoke
curling
up
from
Abel
White
’
s
bungalow
and
the
flames
beginning
to
burst
through
the
roof
.
I
knew
then
that
I
could
do
my
employer
no
good
,
but
would
only
throw
my
own
life
away
if
I
meddled
in
the
matter
.
From
where
I
stood
I
could
see
hundreds
of
the
black
fiends
,
with
their
red
coats
still
on
their
backs
,
dancing
and
howling
round
the
burning
house
.
Some
of
them
pointed
at
me
,
and
a
couple
of
bullets
sang
past
my
head
;
so
I
broke
away
across
the
paddy
-
fields
,
and
found
myself
late
at
night
safe
within
the
walls
at
Agra
.
“
As
it
proved
,
however
,
there
was
no
great
safety
there
,
either
.
The
whole
country
was
up
like
a
swarm
of
bees
.
Wherever
the
English
could
collect
in
little
bands
they
held
just
the
ground
that
their
guns
commanded
.
Everywhere
else
they
were
helpless
fugitives
.
It
was
a
fight
of
the
millions
against
the
hundreds
;
and
the
cruellest
part
of
it
was
that
these
men
that
we
fought
against
,
foot
,
horse
,
and
gunners
,
were
our
own
picked
troops
,
whom
we
had
taught
and
trained
,
handling
our
own
weapons
,
and
blowing
our
own
bugle
-
calls
.
At
Agra
there
were
the
3rd
Bengal
Fusiliers
,
some
Sikhs
,
two
troops
of
horse
,
and
a
battery
of
artillery
.
A
volunteer
corps
of
clerks
and
merchants
had
been
formed
,
and
this
I
joined
,
wooden
leg
and
all
.
We
went
out
to
meet
the
rebels
at
Shahgunge
early
in
July
,
and
we
beat
them
back
for
a
time
,
but
our
powder
gave
out
,
and
we
had
to
fall
back
upon
the
city
.
