But I must not anticipate what belongs to the next chapter. One fact, however, I cannot refrain from stating here, as an appropriate conclusion of this narrative, that within six weeks of the date of the last letter, Lieutenant Hodson was actually commanding in the field, before the walls of Delhi, by General Barnard's special request, the very corps of Guides from which he had been so unjustly ousted two years before.
"Was there ever," he says in reference to it, "a stranger turn on the wheel of fortune? I have much cause to be grateful, and I hope I shall not forget the bitter lessons of adversity."
PART II.
NARRATIVE OF THE DELHI CAMPAIGN, 1857.
CHAPTER I.
MARCH DOWN TO DELHI.
On the 10th May occurred the outbreak at Meerut, closely followed by the massacre at Delhi.