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Spare me a half o' thy soldier grave, That I sleep with thee at the end!

Spur to spur, and knee to knee, Brother, I'll ride to death with thee!

CHAPTER XIV

The crew of the Messageries Maritimes steamship Duc d'Orleans will tell of a tall Sikh officer, with many medals on his breast, who boarded their ship in Bombay with letters to the captain from a British officer of such high rank as to procure him instant accession to his request. Bound homeward from Singapore, the Duc d'Orleans had put into Bombay for coal, supplies and orders. She left with orders for Ma.r.s.eilles, and on board her there went this same Sikh officer, who, it seemed, had missed the transport on which his regiment had sailed.

He had with him a huge, ill-mannered charger, and one Sikh trooper by way of servant. The charger tried to eat all that came near him, including his horse-box, the ship's crew, and enough hay for at least two ordinary horses. But Ranjoor Singh, who said very little to anybody about anything, had a certain way with him, and men put up with the charger's delinquencies for its owner's sake.

When they reached the Red Sea, and the ship rolled less, Ranjoor Singh and his trooper went to most extraordinary lengths to keep the charger in condition. They took him out of his box and walked him around the decks for hours at a time, taking turns at it until officer, trooper and horse were tired out.

They did the same all down the Mediterranean. And when they landed at Ma.r.s.eilles the horse was fit, as he proved to his own brute satisfaction by trying to kick the life out of a gendarme on the quay.

Another letter from somebody very high, in authority to a French general officer in Ma.r.s.eilles procured the instant supply of a horse for the Sikh trooper and two pa.s.ses on a northbound train. The evening of their landing saw them on their way to the front, Ranjoor Singh in a first-cla.s.s compartment, and his man in the horse-box. Neither knew any French to speak of, but the French were very kind to these dark-skinned gentlemen who were in so much hurry to help them win the war.

It was dark-nearly pitch-dark at the journey's end. The moon shone now and then through banks of black clouds, and showed long lines of poplar trees. Beyond, in the distance, there was a zone in which great flashes leaped and died-great savage streaks of fire of many colors-and a thundering that did not cease at all.

Along the road that ran between the poplars two men sent their horses at a rousing clip, though not so fast as to tax them to the utmost. The man in front rode a brute that lacked little of seventeen hands and that fought for the bit as if he would like to eat the far horizon.

In the very, very dark zone, on the near side of where the splashes of red fire fell, jingling bits and a kick now and then proclaimed the presence of a regiment of cavalry. Nothing else betrayed them until one was near enough to see the whites of men's eyes in the dark, for they were native Indian cavalry, who know the last master- touches of the art of being still.

Between them and the very, very dark zone-which was what the Frenchmen call a forest, and some other nations call a stand of timber-a little group of officers sat talking in low tones, eight Englishmen and the others Sikhs.

"They say they're working round the edge-say they can't hold 'em. It looks very much as if we're going to get our chance to-night. When a red light flashes three times at this near corner of the woods, we're to ride into 'em in line-it'll mean that our chaps are falling back in a hurry, leaving lots of room between 'em and the wood for us to ride through. Better join your men, you fellows! Oh, lord! What wouldn't Ranjoor Singh have given to be here! What's that?"

There came a challenge from the rear. Two hors.e.m.e.n cantered up.

"Who are you? What d' you want?"

"Sahib! Colonel Kirby sahib!"

"What is it? Hallo-there are the three lights-no, two lights- that's 'Get ready!' Who are you? Why-Ranjoor Singh!"

"Salaam, sahib!"

"Shake hands. By gad-I'm glad! Find your squadron, Ranjoor Singh- find it at once, man-you're just in time. There go the three lights! Outram's Own!-in line of squadron columns to the right-Trot, March! Right!"

Ranjoor Singh had kept the word of babu Sita Ram, and had managed to be with them when the first blood ran.

THE END.

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