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  "What happened?" Teresa asked.

  Sharpe shrugged. "It was in India. A battle. We won."

  Teresa raised her eyebrows in mock surprise. "What a wonderful story teller you are, Richard. A battle. In India. We won."

  "Aye," MacKeon said, shaking his head. "Gawilghur! A rare fight, that one.

  A rare fight. A horde of heathen, there were, a horde! And this wee laddie," he gestured at Sharpe, "scrambled up a cliff like a monkey. A dead man if ever I did see one. Aye," he nodded at Sharpe, "I thought it was you."

  "So what did happen?" Tubbs demanded, echoing Teresa's earlier plea.

  "It was a battle," Sharpe said, getting to his feet. "In India."

  "And you won?" Teresa asked earnestly.

  "We did," Sharpe said, "we did." He paused, thinking, and it almost seemed he was going to tell the story, but instead he touched a finger to the long scar that ran up one cheek and which gave him such a grim appearance.

  "I fetched this scar in that fight," he said, then shook his head, "but if you'll forgive me, it's time to check the sentries." He picked up his shako, rifle and sword belt and ducked out the door.

  "It was a battle," Teresa said, imitating Sharpe, "in India. We won. So what really happened, Mister MacKeon?"

  "He just told you, didn't he? It was a battle in India, and we won it."

  The Scotsman scowled and lapsed into his previous silence.

  Sharpe crossed the bridge, spoke to the two men who stood guard at the southern end, then went back to the picquets at the northern side, and afterwards he climbed the wooden ladders in the fortress, past the room where Hickey still stared forlornly at Teresa, and found Patrick Harper on the southern parapet. Harper nodded a greeting, then passed his canteen to Sharpe.

  "I'm not thirsty, Pat."

  "That's medicine in there, so it is."

  "Ah," Sharpe tipped the canteen and drank some of the red wine. "So how many bottles did you keep back?"

  "None that I know of, sir," Harper said in a voice of injured innocence, "but I might have missed a few. It's dark in that store-room, so it is, especially when the door's shut, and it's easy to miss a few dark bottles in a black place." He drank from the canteen. "But the boys got your message, Mister Sharpe, so they did, and if one of them gets drudraIu'llktillvemyselfis."

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  "He was drunk," Sharpe said.

  "And he says you should tell me the story."

  Sharpe grimaced. "That's just what you need, Pat, another war story. What time are you being relieved?"

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  "Itdon'stlikmeiat, Pay."

  "Don'stlikmt whag, sid?"

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  "And what does the infantry do?"

  "It stays at San Miguel, of course. To protect our retreat."

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