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morning. But to get a couple of hours' more sleep, we 

 arranged that our reserved carriage should be shunted on 

 arrival. Towards what seemed the middle of the night 

 we heard the train run into Lahore station, and congratu- 

 lated ourselves on not having to turn out. Shortly after- 

 wards we felt our carriage moving on with the train, and 

 got up in time to see our surprised servants huddled 

 together on the platform, whilst we were rushed off with 

 the Calcutta Mail. 



At Mian Mir station, only a few miles further, we 

 begged to have our carriage taken off, but were told 

 by the Baboo in charge that it could not be done ; " for," 

 he explained gravely, "yours is a composite carriage, and 

 although your half is certainly marked ' to remain at 

 Lahore,' the other half is for Calcutta." At the next station 

 they assured us they could not meddle with the mail ; and 

 finally we were landed at Amritza at 8 a.m., with no 

 luggage or servants. By the greatest good luck we had 

 our clothes ; but it was only because the ayah had forgotten 

 to take them away. 



By twelve o'clock we got back to Lahore, and drove to 

 Government House, very glad to return to civilization 

 for a few days. In the afternoon the Maharaja of Kapur- 

 thala came to call on Sir Dennis, and very kindly offered 

 Alan a day's pig-sticking in his State, the capital of which 

 is about five hours by rail from Lahore. 



