chapter fiveThe Duke awoke with a strong sense of danger.
It was something that had happened to him several times in India.
Having gone to bed peacefully and without apprehension of anything untoward, he had woken, almost as if someone had touched him, with a feeling that something dangerous was imminent together with a sense of urgency to act.
On each occasion that this had happened his instinct had been correct and on the last occasion he had saved himself and those he commanded from an unexpected assault that would have annihilated them all.
Now he sat up in bed, realising from the moonlight on either side of the curtains that it was late and he had been asleep for some time.
He climbed out of bed, went to the nearest window and looked out.
He saw as he expected the Strath lying b
