Part 1—The Demon of Cawnpore
Chapter 1—Two Thousand Pounds for a Head
A reward of two thousand pounds will be paid to any one who will deliver up, dead or alive, one of the prime movers of the Sepoy revolt, at present known to be in the Bombay presidency, the Nabob Dandou Pant, commonly called...
Such was the fragmentary notice read by the inhabitants of Aurangabad, on the evening of the 6th of March, 1867.
A copy of the placard had been recently affixed to the wall of a lonely and ruined bungalow on the banks of the Doudhma, and already the corner of the paper bearing the second name—a name execrated by some, secretly admired by others—was gone.
The name had been there, printed in large letters, but it was torn off by the hand of a solitary fakir who passed by that desolate spot. The
