Meanwhile the long armed array is flowing steadily past. Maud, who is quite the soldier's wife, criticises and approves. At length the last regiment has come and gone, the last band has crashed out its music, the Royal carriage makes a move, the staff gallops away, the crowd is pushing and hurrahing and scattering itself over the wide plain; the shades of evening are gathering over it; the Indian friends drive off merrily for home; the scene fades--fades and dies away. Let us leave this party of happy people to themselves--we must be their companions no longer. THE END. PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON FOOTNOTES: [1] For the sake of readers who might mispronounce the name of the famous station Das-tipúr if the official spelling were retained, the name is spelt phonetically. [2] Club. [3] Blackwater, _i.e._, sea. [4] Government. [5] Native porters. Transcriber's Notes Obvious errors of punctuation and diacritics repaired. Hyphen added: good-nature (p. 88), half-way (p. 133), light-hearted (p. 111), over-wrought (p. 135), school-girl (p. 35). Hyphen removed: dreamland (p. 164), hillside (p. 320), lifetime (p. 33). The following words appear both with and without hypens and have not been changed: off[-]hand. Pp. 8, 158: "Fortheringham" changed to "Fotheringham". P. 11: "alterative" changed to "alternative" (a very agreeable alternative). P. 42: "biddin" changed to "bidding" (only too happy to do her bidding). P. 99: "hat" changed to "that" (there is no necessity for that). P. 111: "he" changed to "she" (she might console herself). P. 111: "protégé" changed to "protégée" (her _protégée_ be put beyond the reach of danger). P. 131: "dot" changed to "got" (You've got a big tear on your cheek). P. 209: "adepts" changed to "adept" (adept at interpreting them). P. 213: "corps" changed to "corpse" (each one motionless and corpse-like). P. 239: "or" changed to "for" (Here I shall be for weeks). P. 293: "incongrous" changed to "incongruous" (rendered them somewhat incongruous companions). P. 296: added "I" (I have my beloved Browning). P. 337: "violent" changed to "violet" (Mrs. Vereker's violet eyes). P. 344: "terzo incommodo" changed to "terzo incomodo". End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Chronicles of Dustypore, by Henry Stewart Cunningham