In the months before the Sepoy Mutiny, an Englishman in the Indian service earns the gratitude of Rujub, a travelling juggler whose powers seem more than conjuring, and that debt of loyalty matters when the rising breaks out. The story follows the besieged and the fugitives through the upheaval of 1857, as a Major and his household resolve to stay together whatever comes.
Henty’s publishers offered this one to old and young alike; its view of the Mutiny is that of an 1890s imperialist. Download the free EPUB.
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