OR,

FELLOWSHIP IN THE EAST.

BY

W. D. ARNOLD,

LIEUT. FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT B. N. I.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

214423.17.25

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE FAMILY OF

CHARLES LLIOT NORTON
NOVEMBER 16, 1927

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LONDON:

A. and G. A. SPOTTISWOODE,
New-street-Square.

"Took measure of his soul, and knew its strength, "And by that silent knowledge, day by day "Was calmed, ennobled, comforted, sustained."

MYCERINUS.

OAKFIELD,

OR

FELLOWSHIP IN THE EAST.

CHAPTER I.

"Then be my restless heart content,
Dull years are not all idly spent:
Give me one feeling true and deep,
One hour of self-forsaking;

And I will bear with years of sleep

For that one glimpse of waking."

ANONYMOUS.

WE left Oakfield at Ferozepore, waiting in that hot July weather for the sentence of the court martial; which sentence (it may be as well to say) is agreed upon in a cleared court, by the members, under an oath of secrecy, both as to their own and their neighbours' votes; as also the finding of guilty or not guilty is first voted upon individually, going upwards from the junior member; and afterwards the sentence is decided upon similar manner; the proceedings are then closed, and sent up to

in a