Your wounds are not in themselves serious, and the only thing that ails you is loss of blood.

We must risk a little accession of fever for the sake of giving you strength.

When you have had your supper, you had best both get to sleep, if you can, for an hour or two.

Whatever arrangements we make will be for about two o'clock in the morning.

And now good-bye for the present; keep up your spirits, and remember that even should any unexpected accident upset our plans for to-night, we will carry them out to-morrow night, as the court-martial will not take place till the afternoon, and there will be at least twenty-four, probably forty-eight hours, between the sentence and its execution." So saying, the doctor took his departure, leaving the lads far more cheerful and confident than they had been when he entered.