After the Utman Khels had been induced to comply with the terms, the
brigades recrossed the Panjkora River, and then marching by easy stages
down the line of communications, returned to the Malakand. The Guides,
moving back to Mardan, went into cantonments again, and turned in a
moment from war to peace. The Buffs, bitterly disappointed at having
lost their chance of joining in the Tirah expedition, remained at
Malakand in garrison. A considerable force was retained near Jalala, to
await the issue of the operations against the Afridis, and to be ready
to move against the Bunerwals, should an expedition be necessary.
Here we leave the Malakand Field Force. It may be that there is yet
another chapter of its history which remains to be written, and that the
fine regiments of which it is composed will, under their trusted
commander, have other opportunities of playing the great game of war. If
that be so, the reader shall decide whether the account shall prolong
the tale I have told, or whether the task shall fall to another hand.
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