Our boys in India . re comingback too fast to be lived again with did that help you? Scott did not help me so much as it did Dennett at thetime, Richard replied. It brought me into notice afterward;but Roderick was older than I, and took the lead in thosedays. He received an appointment at once to keep track ofDhondaram; but, instead of doing it, he really turned themunis friend, and sold much information to Dhondaram, forwhich he received a good price. But, to wind up. Dennettat last offered to find Dhondaram for the government, for athousand pounds and pardon for se
Our boys in India . re comingback too fast to be lived again with did that help you? Scott did not help me so much as it did Dennett at thetime, Richard replied. It brought me into notice afterward;but Roderick was older than I, and took the lead in thosedays. He received an appointment at once to keep track ofDhondaram; but, instead of doing it, he really turned themunis friend, and sold much information to Dhondaram, forwhich he received a good price. But, to wind up. Dennettat last offered to find Dhondaram for the government, for athousand pounds and pardon for several crimes for which hewas imprisoned. Dhondaram found it out just in time to savehimself. Then Dennett left India for England. He was fol-lowed there, and nearly caught; but at last he escaped, and 190 OUR BOYS IN INDIA. went to America. When we ran away from Beverly, we wentunder false names; and when Dennett reached America again,no one ever knew what sort of a character he had been. IF TiiV III 1, 1 I ^^>^\. PREACHING THE INSVK£ECTION. until he showed them in Boston, a little while ago, the kindof a man he really was. I should have thought he would have been afraid to comeback here to India, said Scott. THUGS AND TRAITORS. 191 To any other country he would have been afraid, repliedRichard; but here the European population is continuallychanging. I know very few indeed now who were here whenI was a boy. People forget, too, in a land like this. Anything that is out of sight for a little while is out of mindforever. Only his old associates would remember him, and tothem he could go in safety. That is why I was so sure ofhitting him soon, and why I succeeded at once. Wouldnt Dhondaram remember him ? asked Scott. If he is alive, he will remember him: there is no doubtof that, replied Richard. But it is time we were takingour nap. Let us go to the hotel. 192 OUR BOYS IN INDIA.
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