"
"Do you think that they will attack us, papa?" Ethel asked.
"Yes, Ethel, I think that most likely they will. As we came across
the plain I noticed several other parties quite in the distance.
There must be a very strong body out altogether, and probably they
have resolved upon vengeance for their last year's defeat. They had
better have left it alone, for they have no more chance of taking
this house, with us all upon our guard, than they have of flying.
There is one advantage in it--they will get such a lesson that I do
think we shall be perfectly free from Indian attacks for the
future."
After tea Lopez came up for orders. "You will place," Mr. Hardy
said, "two peons at each corner of the outside fence. One of us
will come round every half-hour to see that all is right. Their
instructions are that in case they hear any movement one is to come
up to us immediately with the news, and the other is to go round to
tell the other sentries to do the same. All this is to be done in
perfect silence. I do not want them to know that we are ready for
their reception. Bring some fresh straw up and lay it down here on
the floor: the women can sleep here."
"What shall I do about your own horses, signor?" Lopez asked.
Mr. Hardy thought a moment.
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