I know that there are loads of them to be had.

I shall go slowly, however, and carefully, too, and every man I bring back will be recommended to me by some old soldier whom I know, and who knows the man he recommends, and has seen him work.

We shall have, I dare say, an army for its size second to none in the world, and the day may come when your old country will be proud of your new one.

Now I'm off to see that all is ready for my people--your people now." I had had arrangements made for the comfort of the clansmen and the women, but I knew that the good old soldier would see for himself that his men were to be comfortable.

It was not for nothing that he was--is--looked on as perhaps the General most beloved by his men in the whole British Army.
When he had gone, and I was alone, Mr.Trent, who had evidently been waiting for the opportunity, came to me.