"Why, Trent, the American Navy, and the Army, too, has been waiting for three years or more for something to happen.

But so far it has all happened on the Mexican side.

Don't tell us, at this late day, that the United States is going to start anything to happening on the other side." "There's something up," Trent insisted.

"I don't know what it is; I haven't an idea of the nature of the happening, but of this I feel rather sure,---that now, at last, the Mexicans have done something that will turn Yankee guns and Yankee men loose." "I wonder if you're any good as a prophet, Trent ?" pondered Dan, studying his division officer's face keenly.
"We'll wait and see," laughed the lieutenant.

"If there really is anything in the wind, I think we'll have a suspicion of what it is by mess-hour to-night.