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of the walls of her compound—as described in the
old ballad of Hardicanute :
Stately stepped he east the Wa
And stately stepped he west....
When the sad end came in June, 1897, the husband
followed her to the grave after a week. Mean-
while he had shot the old chestnut, their aged
companion. Was there not the sad solemn
grandeur of a classical tragedy in all this ?
Major Gough
The liberal and far-sighted policy of Sir'Salar
Jung I in eluded in its programme the employment
of carefully selected English officers of good social
position for important posts. He knew that
besides introducing efficiency in the work of their
departments, they would serve as models, in more
ways than one, for our local officials. And he had
the fine tact to make them feel that they were
personally associated with him in his work. He
made Major Percy Gough, who was connected with
the family of the famous General Sir Hugh Gough,
his Military Secretary. A fine imposing figure,
dignified and reserved, but courteous, polite and
sympathetic. I remember him quite well, because
he lived in Hyderabad as one of its old inhabitants
for a great many years. He was a friend of my
uncle, Nawab Emad Jung, and lived not far from
his house in the vicinity of the Rumboldt Kothi.
The great thing with him and with the other Eng-
lish gentlemen who served Hyderabad in those days
was that they seemed to belong to it, and had no