“Oh no, sir. Didn’t I get out that night and go and look everywhere?”
“No. There might have been scores of other buildings up there. You couldn’t have seen much.”
“No, sir, I didn’t. It was so dark, and there was that tiger.”
“Here, I’ve got leave to be up to-morrow, and I must see what I can do.”
“Don’t think you could have done any more than I did, sir, that night.”
“I know that, Pete; but I want to be trying now all the same. Here, I know; I’ll get the Major’s permission to go up and join Sergeant Ripsy and make a better search up there.”
“Spite of the tigers, sir?”
“In spite of ten tigers, Pete, for I shall have men with me, and rifles.”
“Think old Tipsy will like it, sir?”
“I think Sergeant Ripsy is a stern old British soldier who would do his duty, Pete.”