As to the typhus, it left me very weak; but I soon picked up when the wind from England was blowing in my face.

Only to think that all the time I was grieving for you as dead and buried by the Russians among the hills over there that you were larking about with those jolly Russian girls." "Oh, yes, that's all very well," Jack said.

"But you must remember that all that pretty nearly led to my being hung or shot; and it was a hot time among those Poles, too, I can tell you." The next few days passed quietly.

On the 12th of July Jack rode out with his commanding officer, who, with many others, accompanied the reconnaissance made by the Turks and French, on a foraging and reconnoitring party, towards Baidar, but they did not come in contact with the Russians.
Both parties still worked steadily at their trenches.

The French were fortunate in having soft ground before them, and were rapidly pushing their advances up towards the Malakoff.