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Their brave action seemed to so impress the mutineers that 

 they were some time in making up their minds to close in 

 upon them, but at last the magistrate received private 

 information that the Residenc}^ would be attacked upon a 

 certain date and instructions had been given that they 

 were all to be killed. He sent secretl}^ a message to Agra, 

 about seventy miles away, and asked if relief could be 

 sent them. 



A small party volunteered to ride out to Mynpoorie, and 

 arrived just in time, as the mutineers were upon the point 

 of attacking the station. The magistrate determined to 

 leave immediatel}'^ in the darkness of night, and by morning, 

 along with his small escort, was a long way on the road 

 to Agra — the whole party thus escaping imminent death. 



A short time after this Dr. Watson was encamped with 

 his regiment on the ridge outside the walls of Delhi, and 

 when the final attack was made and the gates of the city 

 were blown in, he, along with a subaltern officer of his 

 regiment named Ewart, was early inside its walls — the 

 houses along each side of the streets being still full of 

 mutineers. The palace of the Mogul Emperors having 

 been captured. Dr. Watson and his young friend Ewart, 

 who afterwards rose to be the head of the police in the 

 North-West Provinces, found difficulty in getting sleeping 

 accommodation, and for six weeks they were obliged to 

 sleep upon the floor of the beautiful pearl mosque within 

 the palace walls. At the end of this time they got per- 

 mission to leave the palace and take possession of a house 

 that belonged to one of the native grandees who had fled, 

 and during the remainder of their stay in Delhi at this 

 time Dr. Watson and Ewart lived in those luxurious 

 quarters. 



Shortly after we find Dr. Watson at Agra, and during 

 an engagement which resulted disastrousl}^ for the British^ 

 he got his skull fractured through being struck by a frag- 

 ment of an exploded shell. While in this wounded state, 

 and in tlie crowd of natives being driven back, he observed 

 something lying among the feet of the routed men. A 

 native who knew him was passing, and, pointing to the 

 object lying on the ground, repeated the name of an officer 

 whom Dr. Watson knew by name. Although in a dazed 



