It is the sort of mission in which I thought you could be made useful, but it is a rough adventure to begin with, and you must not minimize the danger.

It is the duty of a soldier to run the risk of being killed in battle, but it lies beyond his duty to go into the enemy's camp to obtain news.

He may volunteer for it, but with a knowledge that if detected he would assuredly be hanged." "I do not think, general, that the risk of detection would be great, but the risk of failure would be so.

If when we get there we can see no possible means of passing through the line of sentries, there would be nothing to do but to come back, and I own that in talking it over the thought that I might be obliged to return and to tell you that I had failed occupied a much larger portion of my thoughts than the risk of being detected." "But I shall not expect you to succeed, Campbell; the chances are a hundred to one against it.

I should be glad, however, to have the experiment tried once again, so that if the garrison capitulates before we arrive to its succour, I shall not be able to blame myself for not having made one more effort to induce them to hold out for another few weeks.