L'ENVOI.
Four years later, on a Christmas morning. Two people are standing by a grave in the Ahgungß Cemetery. The one a tall, bronzed, and bearded officer in an irregular cavalry uniform. On hisbreast hang the mutiny and China medals, and* suspended by a pink ribbon the bronze cross with its motto, "For Valour," won by its wearer at the relief of Lucknow. The other a fair girl of some" one and twenty summers ; sho leans lovingly on her husband's arm, and they look down together" at the legend on the marble ci oss, which states that it is erected to the memory of "James Sutton, a captain in the East India Company* cavalry, who fell nobly at his post during the outbreak at Aligunge in August, 1857." " Poor Jim, his troubles are all over now. Dc you know, Ethel, I think he should have lived to marry you, dear. He was more woithy of you than I." Hia wife placed a garland of flowers upon thff cros3. "Bear Jack ! You are mine for ever now, but I think neither of us will ever forget him."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1944, 20 December 1884, Page 3 (Supplement)
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186L'ENVOI. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1944, 20 December 1884, Page 3 (Supplement)
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