May be if we'd staid back, we'd got exchanged with the ten thousand sick.

We were the first to leave Millen and the first to reach Blackshear.

We were again the first to leave Blackshear.

Perhaps those fellows we left behind then are exchanged.

Now, as we've played ahead every time, with such infernal luck, let's play backward this time, and try what that brings us." "But, Lale," (Andrews's nickname--his proper name being Bezaleel), said I, "we made something by going ahead every time--that is, if we were not going to be exchanged.