A Tale of the Retreat from Cabul.
BY JAMES GRANT,
AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF WAR," "FIRST LOVE AND LAST LOVE,"
"LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH," ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
"Come what come may,
Time and the Hour runs through the roughest day."—Macbeth.
LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE ST., STRAND.
1871.
[All Rights Reserved.]
LONDON:
BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
I.—BEYOND THE LAND OF THE SUN
II.—IN THE AFGHAN FORT
III.—THE WARNING
IV.—WHAT TOOK US THERE
V.—TIFFIN WITH THE TRECARRELS
VI.—THE APPOINTMENT
VII.—"THE BAND PLAYS AT TWO"
VIII.—THE DRIVE
IX.—ADVENTURE IN CABUL
X.—THE MOSQUE OF BABER
XI.—"Only an Ensign"
XII.—ASSASSINATION
XIII.—HOME IN THE SPIRIT
XIV.—IN THE FORTIFIED CAMP
XV.—CHRISTMAS AT CABUL
XVI.—THE MORNING OF THE RETREAT
XVII.—THE HALT BY THE LOGHUR RIVER
XVIII.—SPIRITED AWAY!
XIX.—THE SKIRMISH
XX.—IN THE KHYBER PASS
XXI.—WALLER'S ADVENTURES
XXII.—CHANCE BETTER THAN DESIGN
XXIII.—DENZIL A NAWAB
XXIV.—A MEETING
XXV.—MARRIED OR NOT?
XXVI.—THE WANDERER
XXVII.—THE LOST STEAMER
ONLY AN ENSIGN.
Far, far away from rough and rocky Cornwall—fromsteep Tintagel with all its memories of KingArthur's knights, his "Table Round" and flirtingqueen; from the traditionary haunts of its giantTregeagle, and from its wondrous mines deep, deepdown below even the blue waves of the Atlantic;far away beyond the Indus and the frontiers ofBritish India, fifteen hundred miles from Calcutta,and seven hundred from the shores of the ArabianGulf, we have to change the scene to where aBritish army, under General Elphinstone, was cantonedbefore the city of Cabul, ere we can look afterthe fortunes of Denzil Devereaux, of whom we havebarely thought, while progressing through an entirevolume of our story.
A detachment of his regiment, under a captainnamed Waller, was attached to General's Trecarrel'sNative Infantry Brigade; and an afternoon inNovember of the second year af