Why, you can remember how stiff you were, yourself,
the first day or two you were here, and that after riding only an hour
or two."
"I know, Uncle, and I should not have been in the least surprised, if
she had collapsed. I talked it over with Surajah, and we agreed that,
if she could not go on, we must hire a vehicle of some sort, and let
her travel, every day, in front of us with Ibrahim, and that if it
delayed us so much that there was any possibility of our being
overtaken, we would have put on our peasant's dresses, got rid of our
horses, and have gone forward on foot.
"However, she kept up wonderfully well, and always made the best of
things."
"We won't ask you to tell us anything more, Dick, till your mother
joins us, or you will have to go over the story twice."
"No, Uncle; and I can assure you I don't want to tell the story until
I have had my supper, for our meals have not been very comfortable on
the road, and I have not eaten anything since early this morning."
"What is Tippoo doing, Dick?"
"Well, as far as I can see, Uncle, he is preparing for war again. He
is strengthening all his forts, building fresh defences to
Seringapatam, and drilling numbers of fresh troops.
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