Just walk up to the Hall, Corporal, and I shall follow you in a minute." "Poor fellow!" he continued, as he watched the newcomer hobbling up the avenue in the ungainly manner which I have described.

"He got a gun over his foot, and it crushed the bones, but the obstinate fool would not let the doctors take it off.

I remember him now as a smart young soldier in Afghanistan.

He and I were associated in some queer adventures, which I may tell you of some day, and I naturally feel sympathy towards him, and would befriend him.

Did he tell you anything about me before I came ?" "Not a word," I replied.
"Oh," said the general carelessly, but with an evident expression of relief, "I thought perhaps he might have said something of old times.
Well, I must go and look after him, or the servants will be frightened, for he isn't a beauty to look at.