Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...mar!" (strike, strike). One man tumbled head over heels, another fired a pistol, and before they could reach one of the robbers, the whole had escaped, all but one man, the leader, who was in the act of digging the wall! The moment I heard my guard on the move, I myself darted from the corner where I had been watching, and rushed at the digger, who seemed too scared or too encumbered to move. Seizing him by the throat, I said, "You scoundrel, I am the magistrate!" As I said these words the man dropped on his knees, and his expression of horror baffles all description. But this was but a poor result of our elaborate plans, and so thought our blackened Brahmin, for he appeared among us at the moment wringing his hands and exclaiming, "They are all fled; I shall be ruined. All escaped! What have you done '?" But immediately afterwards be suddenly exclaimed, "Come along with me, we will catch some of them yet; come on, follow me." We obeyed and followed him to two or three houses, where we found several fellows who had evidently been with the gang, and especially one man, who, stretched on the ground, was snoring as if in profound slumber, but on being kicked and turned over on his side exhibited palpable signs of newly-turned earth on his hands, while his short breathing showed I13 1 ad only just had a hard run; another was found with a sind-kathee covered with earth concealed on his person. These men we secured, and between three and four in the morning I reached my home, to the no little relief of my wife, who had been anxiously expecting me for hours. The next day I tried the prisoners whom I bad arrested, and sentenced them to different terms of imprisonment. The sequel of this adventure, like that in...
