Chapter 10 Summary

Appah Rao sends six of his men to fetch McCandless from the dungeon and bring him to the relative safety of Rao's house. Mary shows up and demands to go with the men in order to save Sharpe, whom she has said is her half-brother. Kunwar Singh protests but Mary prevails and goes with the men. Singh goes along, not knowing what else to do. Mary still has the loaded pistol.

The group of rescuers find the outer gate to the dungeon unguarded but locked. The tiger had been released from its cell and keeps the prisoners from attempting to escape. Sharpe calls to Mary and asks if she has a gun. She throws the loaded pistol through the gate and down the stairs, but it hangs up toward the bottom of them. Sharpe picks the lock, the tiger lunges and interrupts, and...