"
"How far away is it?"
"Very hard to tell on a night like this, sir. It might be ten miles
away and might be twenty. By my reckoning it's on our road, though,
and somewhere between here and Jundhra."
"So it seems to me; our road swings round to the right presently,
doesn't it? That'll lead us right to it. That would make it Doonha
more or less. D'you suppose it's at Doonha?"
"I was thinking it might be, sir. If it's Doonha, it means that the
sepoy barracks and all the stores are burning--there's nothing else
there that would make all that flame!"
"There are two companies of the Thirty-third there, too."
"Yes, sir, but they're under canvas; tents would blaze up, but they'd
die down again in a minute. That fire's steady and growing bigger!"
"It's the sepoy barracks, then!"
"Seems so to me, sir!"
"Halt!" roared Bellairs. The advance-guard kicked up a little shower
of sparks, trace-chains slacked with a jingle and the jolting ceased.
Bellairs rode up to the advance-guard.
"Now, Sergeant," he ordered, "it looks as though that were the Doonha
barracks burning over yonder.
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