"What is that?" asked the missionary.
"Many of the sepoys are too impatient to wait for the day fixed."
"How will it be in Delhi?"
The native shook his head.
"They will wait, sahib; but they are ready now."
"And what will be done here?"
Luchman seemed surprised at the question.
"Was not Delhi the capital of the Mogul Empire? Does not the emperor live with his family in the palaces yonder?"
These queries fully answered the questions of the missionary. Delhi was to be the capital of the restored empire, and probably in all India there was not a more unsafe place for a European to dwell.
When they had talked awhile longer, Luchman, declining the invitation to eat and rest himself, said he would go forth to learn some things he was anxious to know. If he found the danger immediate he would return without delay; otherwise he might be gone until morning.