Now then--the game is growing fast and furious, it seems.

Oh, that I may find myself soon in the thickest of it!" So said Tom Thurnall; and so said Major Campbell, too, that night, as he prepared everything to start next morning to Southampton.

"The better the day, the better the deed," quoth he.

"When a man is travelling to a better world, he need not be afraid of starting on a Sunday.".