Baccarat was very popular with the faster set. At this game play sometimes ran high, and there was a captain in one of the other regiments who scarcely ever sat down without winning. At the beginning of the evening, when play was low, he generally lost; but was certain to get back his losings, and sometimes a considerable sum over, as the stakes rose higher. One of the lieutenants7 who was a chum of Lisle's was particularly unlucky. He was of an excitable disposition9, and played high as the evening went on. Lisle noticed that he often paid in chits, instead of money. This was not an unusual custom, as officers are often short of cash, and settle up when they receive their month's pay. Lisle frequently remonstrated10 with his friend on the folly11 of his proceedings12, and the young fellow declared that he would retire from the table, if luck went against him. But the mania13 was too strong for him.
"It is extraordinary what bad luck I have," he said, one day. "I almost always win at the beginning of the evening; and then, when I get thoroughly14 set, my winnings are swept away."
"Why don't you get up when you are a winner?"
"That would be very bad form, Bullen; a fellow who did that would be considered a cad."
"I should strongly advise you to give it up, altogether."
Lisle observed with regret that his friend's spirits fell, and that he became moody15 and irritable16. One day, when he went into his quarters, he found him sitting with a look of misery17 upon his face.
"What is it, Gordon?" he asked. "I hope I am not in the way?"
"Well, it has come to this," the young officer said. "I am at the end of my tether. I shall have to leave the regiment3."
"Nonsense!" Lisle replied.
"It is true. I owe a lot of money to that fellow Sanders. He has bought up all my chits, and this is a note from him, saying that he has waited two or three months, but must now request me to pay up without further delay. Besides my pay, I have only eighteen hundred pounds, that was left me by an old aunt; but that will barely cover what I owe. Of course I can hold on on my pay; but the loss of so much money will make a lot of difference, and I fear I shall have to transfer. It is hard lines, because I am now pretty high on the list of lieutenants; and shall, of course, have to go to the bottom of the list.
"The only alternative would be to enlist2 in some white regiment that has lately come out. There are plenty of gentlemen in the ranks. I certainly see no other way."
"I had no idea it was so bad as that, Gordon. Surely there must be some other way out of the difficulty. I could lend you a couple of hundred pounds."
"Thank you, old fellow! But I am so deeply in debt that that would make no difference."
"I am not sure that there is not something else to be done," said Lisle. "While I sit watching the play, I can see more than the players can; and since I have noticed that Sanders persistently18 wins, directly the stakes get high, I have watched him very closely, and am convinced that he does not play fair. It has struck me that he withdraws the money on his cards when he sees that the dealer19 has a strong hand, and adds to his stake when he considers that the dealer is weak.
"Now my testimony20 as a youngster would go a very little way, if unsupported against his; but if you will give me a solemn promise that you will never play baccarat again, I will get two or three fellows to watch him. Then, if we can prove that he plays unfairly, of course you will be able to repudiate21 payment of the money he has won of you."
"Good heaven! It would be the saving of me, and I will willingly give you the promise you want. But you must surely be mistaken! Sanders certainly has had wonderful luck, but I have never heard a suggestion that he does not play fair. I only know that there is a good deal of shyness about playing with him. You see, it is a frightful22 thing to accuse a man of cheating."
"I admit that it is not pleasant; but if a man cheats, and is found out, it is the duty of every honest man to denounce him, if they detect him.
"Well, if you don't mind, I will take Lindsay, Holmes, and Tritton into my confidence. They all play occasionally, and you must let me mention that you are altogether in his power; and that, unless he is detected, you will have to leave the regiment. Mind, don't you watch him yourself. Play even more recklessly than usual; that will make him a bit careless."
"Well, there is a possibility that you are right, Bullen, and if you can but detect him, you will save me from frightful disgrace."
"I will try, anyhow."
Bullen sent a note to the officers he had mentioned, asking them to come to his quarters, as he particularly wished to speak to them. In a quarter of an hour they joined him.
"Well, what is up, Bullen?" Tritton said. "What do you want with us?"
"It is a serious business, Tritton. That fellow Sanders owns chits of Gordon's to the amount of fifteen hundred pounds."
An exclamation23 of dismay broke from his hearers.
"Good heavens!" Tritton exclaimed, "how could he possibly have lost so much as that? I know that the play has been high; but still, even with the worst luck, a man could hardly lose so much as that."
"I fancy that, after the party in the mess room has broken up, several of them used to adjourn24 to Sanders' quarters; and it was there that the great bulk of the money was lost."
"What a fool Gordon has been!" Lindsay said. "What a madman! Such a good fellow, too!
"Well, of course, nothing can be done. If it were only a hundred or two, the money would be subscribed25 at once; but fifteen hundred is utterly26 beyond us. What is he thinking of doing?"
"Well, he has eighteen hundred pounds, and he talked of drawing out the amount and paying up, and then exchanging into some other regiment. The question, however, is, whether he ought to pay."
The others looked up at him in surprise.
"Why, of course he must pay," Tritton said; "at least he must pay, or quit the service, a disgraced man."
"I think there is an alternative," Lisle said, "and that is why I have sent for you."
"What alternative can there be?"
"Well, you know I don't play; but I like sitting watching the game, and I am quite convinced that Sanders doesn't play fair."
"You don't say so!" Tritton said. "That is a very serious accusation27 to make, you know, Bullen!"
"I am perfectly28 aware of that, and I feel that it would be mad for me to make an unsupported accusation against Sanders. But I want you three fellows to join me in watching Sanders play. My word, unsupported, would be of no avail; but if four of us swore that we saw him cheating, there could be no doubt about the result.
"For one thing, Sanders would have to leave the army. That would be no loss to the service, for he is an overbearing brute29; to say nothing of the fact that several young officers have had to leave the service, owing to their losses at play with him."
"I know of two cases," Lindsay said. "There was a very strong feeling against him, but no one suspected him of unfair play. It was he who introduced baccarat here, when his regiment first came up. It had never been played here before, and you may notice that very few of his fellow officers ever take a hand.
"Well, there will be no harm in our watching. It is a thing that one doesn't like doing but, when it comes to a fellow officer being swindled, it is clearly our duty to expose the man who is doing it."
"Very well, then, this evening two of us will take our stand behind Gordon, and the other two behind Sanders."
"But how did he cheat? It seems a fair game enough."
"He does it in this way. He puts five sovereigns under his hand. That is the limit, you know. Then he looks at his card, and pushes it out. With his hand still touching30 it, he watches the dealer and, if he can see by his face that his card is a good one--and you can generally tell that--he withdraws his hand with four of the sovereigns, leaving only one on the card. If, on the other hand, he thinks it is a bad one, he leaves the whole five there. He does the trick cleverly enough; but I am certain that I have, four or five times, seen him do it.
"Keep your eyes on his hand. You will see that he takes up five sovereigns from the heap before him, and that he has them in his hand when he pushes the card out. You will notice how he fixes his eye upon the dealer, and that he leaves either one or five, as I have said. He does it, at times, all through the evening, especially when Gordon is dealing31; for I can tell, myself, by Gordon's face whether he has a good or a bad card. Of course, he can see it, too.
"I want you all to nod to me, when you see it done. We shall let him do it two or three times, so that we can all swear to it."
All agreed to do so, and Lisle then went to Gordon's quarter's.
"Tritton, Lindsay, and Holmes are going to watch with me tonight. I think the best thing will be for you to answer Sanders' note, and tell him that you will require time to draw your money from England to pay him; but that you will play again tonight, to see if luck turns."
That evening the four young officers took their places, as arranged. Now that their attention had been directed to it, they saw that several times Sanders, although he took up five pounds, only left one on the card; and that he kept his hand upon it, up to the last moment. Each in turn nodded to Lisle.
All noticed how intently Sanders watched the dealer. Generally he left two sovereigns on the card, apparently32 when the dealer had a moderate card; but when he had a very low or a very high one, the trick was played. After fully33 satisfying himself that he had good proofs, just as Sanders was again withdrawing his hand with four sovereigns in it, Lisle threw himself forward, jerked the hand upwards34, and showed the four sovereigns lying under it.
"I accuse Captain Sanders of cheating. I have seen him do this trick half a dozen times."
Sanders shook himself free, and aimed a heavy blow at Lisle; who, however, stepped aside and, before he could repeat it, he was seized by the officers standing35 round. A tremendous hubbub36 arose, in the midst of which the colonel entered the room.
"Bullen accused Captain Sanders of cheating."
"This is a very serious accusation, Bullen," the colonel said sternly, "and unless you can substantiate39 it, may be of very serious consequences to yourself. Will you tell me what you saw?"
Lisle related the circumstances, and how the fraud was accomplished40.
"You mean to say that, by watching the dealer's eye, Captain Sanders leaves one pound or five on his card?"
"That is what I said, sir. I have seen him do it on several nights. Tonight I determined41 to expose him, and Tritton, Lindsay, and Holmes have been watching him with me. I was induced to do so by the fact that the man has rooked Lieutenant8 Gordon of something like fifteen hundred pounds, for which he holds his chits."
"Mr. Tritton, you hear what Mr. Bullen says. Have you also observed the act of cheating of which he accuses Captain Sanders?"
"Yes, sir; I have seen him do it several times this evening. I believe he has done it more, but I am prepared to swear to seven times."
The colonel looked at Lindsay, who said:
"I have seen suspicious movements eleven times, but I should not like to swear to more than four."
"And you, Mr. Holmes?"
"I can swear to five times, but I believe he did it much oftener than that."
"What have you to say, Captain Sanders?"
"I say it is a conspiracy42 on the part of these four young officers to ruin me. It is a lie from beginning to end."
"I am afraid, Captain Sanders, that you will find it very difficult to persuade anyone that four officers, who as far as I know have no ill feeling against you, should conspire43 to bring such a charge. However, I shall report the matter to your colonel, tomorrow, with a written statement from these four officers of what they saw. He will, of course, take such steps in the matter as he thinks fit."
Without a word, Sanders turned on his heel and left the room, followed by the angry glances of all who were present.
"Mr. Bullen, you have behaved with great discretion," the colonel said, "in not making a charge on your first impression, but getting three other officers to watch that man's behaviour. Tomorrow I shall hold a court of enquiry, at which the major, the adjutant, and two other officers will sit with me. You will all, of course, be called, and will have to repeat your story in full.
"Lieutenant Gordon, I am shocked to hear that an officer of my regiment should gamble to such an extent as you have done. You will, of course, be called tomorrow. I think that, at the best, you will be advised to change into another regiment. I need not say that, after this exposure, the chits that you have given to Captain Sanders become null and void.
"This room will be closed for the rest of the evening."
The officers, however, gathered in the room below, and talked the matter over. There was not a whisper of regret at the disgrace that had fallen upon Sanders. His reputation was a bad one. Since his regiment had been in India one young officer had shot himself, and three had been obliged to leave the army, and in all cases it was known that these had lost large sums to him; but the matter had been hushed up, as such scandals generally are in the army. Still, the truth had been whispered about, and it was because none of the officers in his regiment would play with him that he had come habitually44 to the mess of the Pioneers; by which, his own regiment having been quartered in southern India until six months previously45, nothing was known of his antecedents.
"We shall all have to be very careful, when you are looking on at our play, Bullen," one said, laughing. "I hadn't given you credit for having such sharp eyes; and certainly Sanders did not, either, or he would never have tried his games on, while you were standing watching him."
"I was not playing, you see," Lisle said, "and the players do not trouble about onlookers46, but keep their attention directed to the dealer. Standing there evening after evening, it was really easy to see what he was doing; for he, too, kept his attention fixed47 on the dealer, and paid no heed48 to us who were looking on. He occasionally did look up at us, but evidently he concluded that we were only innocent spectators. When my suspicions were aroused, there was really no difficulty in detecting him."
"Because it was only my word against that of Sanders, and it was only after Gordon told me how much he was in debt to the man; and that the latter had, that morning, written to him calling upon him to pay up, that I saw that something must be done. So I asked Tritton, Lindsay, and Holmes to watch him closely this evening, along with me."
"Well, I hope Gordon won't have to go," the other said. "He is an awfully50 good fellow, though he has made an abject51 ass52 of himself."
"Don't you think, Prosser, that if we were all to sign a petition to the colonel, to ask him to overlook the matter, as Gordon has received a lesson that will certainly last his lifetime, he might do so."
"It depends upon how much the matter becomes public. Of course, there must be a court of enquiry in the other regiment; and if, as is certain, a report is sent to the commander-in-chief, Sanders will be cashiered; and I should fancy that Gordon would be called upon to resign. Of course, you four and Gordon will have to give evidence before the commission. It depends, of course, how his colonel takes it; but it is certain that Sanders will have to go, and I fear Gordon will, too. I expect our colonel will get a wigging53 for allowing high play; though, as you say, the greater part of the money was lost in private play, in Sanders' room.
"Anyhow, it will be a somewhat ugly thing for the regiment in general, and we shall get the nickname of 'the gamblers' throughout the army."
The next morning, at eight o'clock, the little committee met. The four young officers gave their evidence, which was put on paper in duplicate and signed by them, a copy being sent to the colonel of Sanders' regiment. In a short time that officer was seen to go into the colonel's tent and, half an hour later, he came out again and went away. A few minutes after he had left, the four officers were summoned.
"I hope," the colonel said, "that we have heard the last of this most unpleasant business. His colonel tells me that this morning, as soon as he turned out, Sanders called upon him and said that he had to go to England, on urgent family business; and that, on his arrival there, he should send in his papers and retire. He gave him leave to go at once, and Sanders disposed of his horse and traps, and started by the eight o'clock train for Calcutta. In these circumstances we have decided54, for the credit of both regiments, that the matter shall be held over. If, as is morally certain, he leaves the army, nothing more need be said about it. Of course, if he should return, it will be brought up.
"I should say, however, that there is no chance whatever of that. I beg of you to impress upon the officers of the regiment; which, indeed, I shall myself do at mess, to make no allusion55 whatever, outside the regiment, to what has occurred. The less said about it, the better. If it were at all known, and got to the ears of the commander-in-chief--and you know how gossip of this kind spreads--both his colonel and myself would get a severe wigging, for not sending in a report of it. In that case a committee would be appointed to go into the whole matter and, as a result, the regiment would probably be sent to the worst possible cantonment they could find for us, and Gordon would be called upon to retire. I will therefore ask you to give me your word that the matter shall not be alluded56 to, outside the regiment. There is no fear of any of Sanders' regiment hearing anything about it, as none of them were present last night.
"Upon further consideration, I think that it would be better to summon all the officers of the regiment, at once, and to impress upon them the necessity for keeping silence on the matter."
Five minutes later the officers' call sounded and, when all were assembled in the anteroom, the colonel repeated to them what he had said to Lisle and his companions; and obtained an undertaking57 from them, individually, that they would maintain an absolute silence on the matter.
The affair greatly added to the estimation in which Lisle was held in the regiment. His quickness in detecting the swindle, and the steps he had taken to obtain proof of his suspicions, showed that he possessed58 other qualities besides pluck and determination.
It is to be feared that some, at least, of the married officers either did not regard the promise of silence as affecting their wives, or had told them what had taken place before they were requested to abstain59 from alluding60 to it; for three or four of the ladies made sly allusions61, when talking to Lisle, which showed that they were cognizant of what had taken place.
"Well, Mr. Bullen," one of them said, "I have up till now regarded you as little more than a boy, in spite of your pluck in going up as a native soldier to Chitral. Now I shall hold you in much higher respect, and shall regard you as a young man with an exceptionally sharp eye, and exceptionally keen discernment."
"I don't think I quite understand you, Mrs. Merritt," Lisle said innocently.
"It is all very well for you to put on that air of ignorance. You don't suppose that married men can keep matters like this from their wives? I can tell you we all admire, very much, the manner in which you saved Lieutenant Gordon from having to leave the service. He is a favourite with us all and, though he seems to have made a great fool of himself, we should all be sorry if he had had to leave us."
"Well, you see, Mrs. Merritt, I am not a married man--"
"I should think not," the lady laughed.
"And do not know how much married men feel themselves bound to keep secrets from their wives; and I can therefore neither confess nor deny that I took any part in the incident to which you are referring."
"You silly boy! Don't you see that I know all about it, and that it is ridiculous for you to pretend to misunderstand me?"
"I do not pretend, Mrs. Merritt. I only know that I have given my promise that I will keep absolute silence on the matter, and that no exception was made as to the ladies of the regiment. That, of course, lies between them and their husbands."
"Well, whether that is so or not, Mr. Bullen, I can tell you that the affair has very greatly raised you in our esteem62. We all liked you before; but we really did regard you only as a young officer who had proved that he possessed an uncommon63 amount of pluck and determination. In future, we shall regard you as a gentleman who was ready to take no inconsiderable risk on behalf of a fellow officer."
"Thank you, Mrs. Merritt! I can assure you that I do not feel a bit more of a man than I did before; but I feel happy in having gained the good opinion of the ladies of the regiment."
After this, Lisle came to be regarded as the special pet of the ladies of the regiment. Among the officers he became a very general favourite, and his popularity was increased by the fact that he was not only one of the best shots, but one of their best cricketers; and several times did efficient service, by his bowling64, in the matches between the regiment and the others cantoned with them.
Then came the news that the tribes had risen, that the Malakand had been attacked, that Chakdara, the fortified65 post on the Swat river, was invested, and that the tribes on this side of the Panjkora were in revolt. This, however, was soon followed by a report that the post had been relieved, that heavy losses had been inflicted66 upon the tribesmen, and that the trouble was over.
For some time the frontier had been in a state of tension. The Mullahs, or priests, had been inciting67 the tribesmen to insurrection; and one especially, who was called the Mad Mullah, had gone about from tribe to tribe, stirring the people up. He professed68 to be a successor of the great Akhund of Swat, and to have inherited his powers. He claimed to be able to work miracles. The Heavenly host were, he said, on his side.
His excited appeals, to the fanaticism69 which exists in every Pathan, were responded to in a marvellous manner. The villagers flew to arms. Still, it was thought and hoped that, when the first excitement caused by his appeals had died away, matters would calm down again. The hope, however, was short lived for, before long, the startling news came that the Mohmunds, a tribe whose territory lay near Peshawar, were in revolt; and that Shabkadr, a village within our frontier, had been raided and destroyed.
Within the next few days the Samana was invested, and the Khyber Pass was in the hands of the Afridis. The Peshawar movable column, of four guns, two squadrons of native horse, and the 20th Punjabi regiment, with a few companies of the Somersets, were sent out to Shabkadr. On arriving there they found that the bazaar70 had been burnt, and that the enemy had taken up a position facing the fort, about a mile and a half distant.
The cavalry71 skirted the cultivated ground between the force and the plateau, and pushed the enemy backward, with severe loss, into the low hills that skirt the border. Next morning the enemy were seen in possession of the lower hill, and the force moved out to attack them. They were found to be in great strength, numbering nearly seven thousand. Leaving a strong force to face the column, flanking parties came down concealed72 by the low hills.
Illustration: They charged the attacking force from end to end.
The infantry73 retired74 in two sections, but the artillery75 came into action. The cavalry made their way up one of the ravines and, when they got within charging distance, they went at the enemy at a gallop76. Taking the entire length of the plateau, about a mile and a half, they charged the attacking force from end to end; and drove them, demoralized, into the hills. The severity of the morning's fighting may be judged from the fact that sixty percent of the force engaged suffered casualties.
From that time, until it was determined to send an expedition into the Mohmund country, the force remained as a corps77 of observation. A force drawn78 chiefly from the Peshawar garrison79 was speedily got together and, on 11th September, had concentrated at or about Shabkadr fort; a general advance having been arranged for, on the 15th of the month.
In the meantime, more serious troubles had arisen with the Zakka-Khels. This tribe was the most powerful of the Pathans. They were at all times troublesome, and frequently made raids across the frontier, carrying off large quantities of cattle; and living, indeed, entirely80 upon plunder81. The Zakhels and the Kukukbels had joined them, as well as several other smaller tribes. They believed that they could do this with impunity82, for no Englishman had ever visited their wild country, with its tremendous gorges83 and passes. A large proportion of them were furnished with Martini and Lee-Metford rifles, and many of the others carried Sniders.
To operate against such formidable enemies, possessing almost impregnable positions, a large force was needed; and time was required to collect the troops. Still more, an enormous train of baggage animals would be required, and a vast amount of stores of all kinds.
It was clear that the time that would be occupied in the preparations of the campaign would be very considerable; but, while these were being made, it was determined that the expedition from Peshawar should move, at once, into the Mohmund country, and finish with that tribe before the main operation began; and that the Malakand division, and the Mohmund field force should carry out the work of punishment, in the stretch of country lying between Lalpura and the Swat River.
It was known that Chakdara was holding out, but that it was hardly pressed, and the first step was to relieve the garrison. Colonel Meiklejohn pushed forward, with a comparatively small force, and arrived at the Malakand on the 1st of August. The reinforcement that had reached that garrison had enabled them to take the offensive, and orders were issued for a strong cavalry reconnaissance to the Amandara valley, five miles away. They found the enemy in such force that the cavalry were obliged to retire, and they effected their retreat with great difficulty, under a very heavy fire. As the path was narrow, cavalry could only proceed in single file, exposed the while to the fire of the enemy.
Sir Bindon Blood arrived, that evening, to take the command. The main body were to move down the road; while a force under Colonel Goldney advanced up the hill to the right, and turned the enemy's flank. Colonel Goldney's attack was perfectly successful. The enemy were taken completely unawares, and entirely routed. The march of the main column, therefore, met with no opposition84 for some distance; then the enemy opened fire, from among the rocks on the hills.
A party of the Guides and the 45th Sikhs were ordered to take the position, at the point of the bayonet. The enemy, however, stuck to their position until they were bayoneted, or driven over the rocks. The 34th and 55th Sikhs stormed some sangars on the left and, pushing their way pluckily85 up the steep slopes, slowly gained the heights, step by step and, in spite of the hot fire and the showers of rocks and stones, drove the enemy out of their strongholds. On this the tribesmen lost heart and fled, hotly pursued by the cavalry, who cut them up in great numbers.
During the fighting at the Malakand, previous to the arrival of the relief, our casualties were one hundred and seventy-three killed and wounded, including thirteen British officers and seven natives. The siege of the small fort of Chakdara had been a severe one. The garrison consisted of two companies of the 45th Sikhs, with cavalry. On the evening of the 26th they were attacked, but repulsed86 their assailants with loss. Next morning Captain Wright, with a company of forty troopers, arrived from the Malakand, having run the gauntlet of large parties of the enemy. The whole of the day was spent in repelling87 rushes of the enemy and, for the next few days, Wright's garrison were unable to leave their posts.
On the 29th the enemy attacked the tower and endeavoured to burn it down; but were again repulsed, with heavy loss.
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