"Conway has had a twenty-mile march, and is, I have no doubt, as hungry as a hunter.

Let him eat his dinner in peace, and then when the wine is on the table he shall relate his adventures in detail.

By the way, Conway, I hope you have lodged that ruffian safely in jail ?" "Yes, sir, I have handed him over, and glad I was to get him off my hands; for though I had him handcuffed and his feet tied, and brought him along in a cart, I never felt comfortable all the way.

The fellow is as strong as a bull, and as he knows what is before him he was capable of anything desperate to effect his escape." "I remember the man well," one of the officers said; "for, as you know, I was in his regiment before I exchanged into the Twenty-eighth.
He was a notorious character.

He had the strength of two ordinary men, and once or twice when he was drunk it took eight men to bring him into barracks.