Why on earth should she undertake the long ride back to Gyantse just to clarify some problems about cabling? Still, at least she was not riding back alone but had the good sense to go with a returning column, so she should be safe enough. He tucked the note away into his jacket and set about organising the patrol.This was new territory, of course, and it wasn’t so long since he had seen the last of the Khampa warriors crossing and hurling abuse, so maybe they were still there, somewhere up ahead, in ambush, waiting for the column to recommence its stately progress. Accordingly, he decided to spread his command: one company under Ottley pulling away to the north, away from the riverbank and the second, under his command, to continue on the road to Lhasa, which now followed a tributary of the Tsangpo called Kyi Chu, curling towards the north east. He had not ridden far when two scouts whom he had sent on galloped in to report that a party of Tibetans, some of them gorgeously apparelled, were riding along the bank of the river towards them.
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