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He returned to the fort to find all quiet and in order It coht weary itself with looking on the moonlit sandy valley and the opaque blue hills, there was no sight or sound ofhard and cold in the vault of sky, and looking down soht; in five hours daould break in the east and the night of attack would be gone But death waited between thisWhat were Haystoun and the ? Well, he would soon know He was not afraid, but this cursed waiting took the heart out of a man! And he looked at his watch and found it half-past twelve

At Yasin there was theIt lasted for three days, and in effect amounted to a little tribal war A e of having regulars with hiners The place had seemed unquiet for some days, and certain precautions had been taken, so that when the rioting broke out at sunset it was easy to get the town under subjection and prepare for external attack The Chiling Pass into Chitral had given trouble of old, but Mackintosh was scarcely prepared for the systeiris fro always been faht interpretation on the business, and settled down to what he half hoped, half feared,only on the north side, and the defence was as allantly at the incoht hand to hand--bayonet against knife, Metford against Enfield--to cover their labour He lostof the next day he had the satisfaction of seeing the fortifications coe with equaniht the eneht, and they were nothey fell back, and for the next day it looked as if they proposed to invest the garrison But by the third evening they began towith them such small plunder as they had won Mackintosh, as a man of enterprise, told off a detachment for pursuit, and cursed bitterly the fate which had broken his ankle with a rifle-bullet