sell their fathers if
they could make anything by the transaction.

"Then you do not know yet whether you are to return?"

"No; I shall see the Governor again, tomorrow morning; and shall
then receive orders."

"I will have some dinner sent over to your quarters, from the mess.
Do not have too much light in the room, or your colour may be
noticed by the servant. I will let the officers know that you have
returned. No doubt many of them will come in for a chat with you.
As no one can overhear you, I do not think that any harm can be
done by it."

"I think not, Colonel."

"I will tell them," the colonel went on, "that you are on secret
service; that you will tell them as much as you can safely do, but
they must abstain from pressing you with questions. We all know
that you have been acting as assistant to Mr. Uhtoff, because it
was mentioned in orders that you had been detailed for that duty;
but they know no more than that, and will doubtless be surprised at
your colour. But you can very well say that, as you had an
important message to carry down, you thought it best to disguise
yourself."

"That will do excellently, Colonel; and I shall be very glad to
have a talk with my friends again."

After leaving the colonel, Harry went to his own room; where he
found Soyera, who had been fetched by Abdool.

"I am sorry to say that I am going away, almost directly, mother,"
he said; "but it cannot be helped."

"I do not expect you always to stay here, Harry. Now that you are
in the Company's service, you must, of course, do what you are
ordered. I am glad, indeed, to find that, although you have been
with them only a year, you are chosen for a post in which you can
gain credit, and attract the attention of the authorities here."

"It is all thanks to the pains that you took to prepare me for such
work.

"I don't expect to be away so long, this time. And indeed, now that
Nana Furnuwees is a prisoner, it does not seem to me that there can
be anything special to do, until some change takes place in the
situation, and Scindia either openly assumes supreme power, or
marches away with his army."

That evening, Harry's room was crowded with visitors. The news of
the treacherous arrest of Nana Furnuwees excited the liveliest
interest; and was received with very much regret, as Nana was
considered the only honest man of all the ministers of the native
princes, and to be friendly disposed towards the British; and all
sa