Crossword-Solution: KARNAL 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Early in the morning of June 6, when the corps had been marching for more than three weeks, they arrived at Karnal, about three days' march from Delhi, their goal.

Thinking it probable that the palki contained a village headman endeavouring to escape in a vehicle ordinarily used only by native ladies, Sherdil decided to give chase; it would be a notable feather in his cap if he could march into Karnal and hand over to Captain Daly the ringleader in the recent troubles.

Whether he could gain the road in the darkness would depend mainly on the knowledge of the palki-wallahs, for though his own sense of locality and direction was keen, as became one accustomed to wander among the hills of the Afghan border, his course had been so erratic since he left Karnal with the Guides in the morning that he was now quite at a loss.

Well," he went on in Pashtu, "what will you want?" "Clothes, shawls, and a camel, sahib." "And where will you get them?" "In the bazar at Karnal, sahib." "Steal them, eh?" "Buy them with the hazur's rupees," said Ahmed, with a smile.

Sherdil was anxious to know what had passed at his interview with the General, still more when he learnt that he was leaving for Karnal.