Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE GREAT WHITE HAND

OR

THE TIGER OF CAWNPORE

THE GREAT WHITE HAND OR THE TIGER OF CAWNPORE

A Story of the Indian Mutiny

By J. E. MUDDOCK

Author of

“_Maid Marian and Robin Hood_;” “_The Dead Man’s Secret_;” “_Stories Weird and Wonderful_;” “_Stormlight_;” “_For God and the Czar_;” “_Only a Woman’s Heart_;” “_From the Bosom of the Deep_;” “_Basile the Jester_;” “_Stripped of the Tinsel_;” “_The Star of Fortune_;” _&c._

LONDON Hutchinson _&_ Co. 34 Paternoster Row, E.C. 1896

_To the Memory of_

_MY FATHER_

_A true gentleman, brave, upright, faithful; who after many long years of devotion to duty in India--and when on the eve of returning to his native land--sank very suddenly to his eternal rest in March, 1861, and sleeps “Till the day break,” in The Circular Road Cemetery, Calcutta, I dedicate this book._

CONTENTS

Chap. Page
PREFACE ix
I. THE RISING OF THE STORM 1
II. THE MYSTERY OF THE CHUPATTIES 13
III. THE STORM BREAKS 23
IV. THE PALACE OF THE MOGUL 36
V. THE TREACHERY OF THE KING 48
VI. HEROIC DEFENCE OF THE MAGAZINE 56
VII. HAIDEE AND HER WRONGS 65
VIII. A PERILOUS MISSION 74
IX. HOPES AND FEARS 85
X. A NARROW ESCAPE 97
XI. STARTLING NEWS 108
XII. WAKING DREAMS 120
XIII. FOR LIBERTY AND LIFE 128
XIV. THE TIGER OF CAWNPORE 135
XV. AS ARMOUR IMPENETRABLE 146
XVI. A DEADLY STRIFE 156
XVII. FOR LIFE AND LOVE 164
XVIII. WITH A LOVE THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING 172
XIX. FROM CAPTIVITY TO CAPTIVITY 185
XX. AS A BIRD IS ENSNARED 196
XXI. THE VOICE OF THE CHARMER 205
XXII. THE LION HEARTS 214
XXIII. AS WITH AN ENCHANTER’S WAND 224
XXIV. “SHIVA THE DESTROYER” 235
XXV. THE LAST GRAND STRUGGLE 241
XXVI. THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES SWINGS 248
XXVII. WITH SWIFT STRIDES NEMESIS MOVES ON 256
XXVIII. “THE BATTLE OF THE BRIDGE” 264
XXIX. RETRIBUTION 274
XXX. NEW HOPES 279
XXXI. A DUEL TO THE DEATH 286
XXXII. DELHI 297
XXXIII. A TERRIBLE VOW 309
XXXIV. A SURPRISE 318
XXXV. NEW HOPES OF LIBERTY 326
XXXVI. MOGHUL SINGH IS OUTWITTED 336
XXXVII. HAIDEE Ō STAR 342
XXXVIII. THE FALL OF DELHI 349