We
have everything so nice here, it will be horrid having to leave it
all. How long will it be for?"
"Six months, in the ordinary state of things, though of course
something may occur to bring us in before that. Still, the change
won't be as much trouble as you fancy. When we get there you can stay
for two or three days with the Hunters till we have got the things
to rights. There is one thing that you will be pleased about. Wade
is going with us, at any rate for the present; you are a favorite
of his, you know, and I think that is the principal reason for
his going. At any rate, when he heard I was in orders, he told the
Colonel that, as there was no illness in the regiment, he thought, if
he did not object, he would change places for a bit with M'Alaster,
the assistant surgeon, who has been with the detachment at Deennugghur
for the last year, so as to give him a turn of duty at Cawnpore,
and do a little shikaring himself. There is more jungle and better
shooting round Deennugghur than there is here, and you know the
Doctor is an enthusiast that way. Of course, the Colonel agreed at
once."
"I am very glad of that, uncle; it won't seem like going to a
strange place if we have him with us, and the Hunters there, and
I suppose three or four officers of the regiment. Who are going?"
"Both your boys," the Major laughed, "and Doolan and Rintoul."
"When do we go, uncle?"
"Next Monday. I shall get somebody to put us up from Friday, and
that morning we will get everything dismantled here, and send them
off by bullock carts with the servants to Deennugghur, so that they
will be there by Monday morning.
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