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wards we were told that the rioters had started, but 

 were headed off and dispersed a long distance from 

 us. In reality there had been another party coming 

 from the opposite direction, of which we knew 

 nothing, and it had been feared that they would 

 join hands with the first contingent : their two 

 roads meeting at a point, of which our house was 

 the corner. It must have been their shouts that 

 we heard, for they actually did pass, only they 

 cunningly broke up into groups of four or five just 

 before they reached here, for fear of being stopped 

 at the lines if they appeared as a mob. The Burra 

 Sahib went to buy me a revolver the next day, but 

 every shop had been cleared out, and there wasn't 

 one in the whole place; so the only thing to do 

 was to write home to the Professor to send one 

 out ; which he did in six weeks' time, with a recom- 

 mendation to erect a Gatling gun on the roof. By 

 this time all was quiet, and the revolver has never 

 been let off, except to shoot at bottles in the pond. 

 Many ladies, though, carried one about with them 

 whenever they went out to dinner, and would pull 

 it out of their pockets and exhibit it to you at odd 

 moments. One unexpectedly produced hers at the 



