Part 17 (1/2)
”I'm pretty much alive, sir, thank you!”
”D'you realize that youof Jailpore possible? That but for you we'd have been trying still to storm the walls without artillery?”
”I had the chance, sir, and I only did what any other man would ha' done under like circumstances”
”Go and tell that to the Horse Marines-or, rather, tell it to Colonel Kendrick! Go and report to hih your eyes!”
So Brown marched off to report hi a badly wounded arm before a torn and mud-stained tent
”Who are you?” said the colonel, as Brown saluted hieant Brown, sir”
”Not Bill Brown of the Rifles?”
”Yes, sir!”
”You lie! He was blown up on the roof of the powder-onethat he's Brown!”
”I'm Brown, sir! I had written orders from General Baines to enter Jailpore and rescue three women and a child”
”Where are your orders?”
”Lost 'em, sir, in the explosion”
”For a madman, you're a circumstantial liar! What happened to the women?”
The colonel sat back, and sony as the nerves in his injured arm tortured him afresh He had asked a question which should settle once and for all this man's pretentions, and he waited for the ansith an air of certainty It was on his lips to call the guard to take the lunatic away
”Juggut Khan, the Rajput, took theht theht, sir I naturally haven't seen them since”
”Will the women know you?”
”One of them will, sir”
”Which one?”
”Jane Emmett, sir”