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A few minutes after he had left , the four officers were summoned . `` I hope , '' the colonel said , `` that we have heard the last of this most unpleasant business . His colonel tells me that this morning , as soon as he turned out , Sanders called upon him and said that he had to go to England , on urgent family business ; and that , on his arrival there , he should send in his papers and retire . He gave him leave to go at once , and Sanders disposed of his horse and traps , and started by the eight o'clock train for Calcutta . In these circumstances we have decided , for the credit of both regiments , that the matter shall be held over . If , as is morally certain , he leaves the army , nothing more need be said about it . Of course , if he should return , it will be brought up .