It took all day for the baggage train to cross the damaged bridge with Mary and Jane cheerfully waving as they passed the 113th.
"Wave back, then, Jack," Elliot urged. "She"s your girl after all."
"She"s not my girl," Jack said and ignored Elliot"s amused grin.
"She"s a better girl than Helen Maxwell ever was," Elliot said softly.
Once they reached the far side, Havelock called for an overnight halt. After two battles in one day, the men lay in exhaustion.
"We"re getting there, Riles." Logan looked without appetite at the hunk of raw beef that was their food for the day. "Every day brings us closer to your wife."
Riley leant against the trunk of a peepul tree, staring northward. "She"d better be alive," he said. "These pandy bastards had better not have hurt her."
"You"d better eat,
