A fair wind will take us quickly across the Atlantic and will give us a chance of getting back in time.

A foul wind may possibly give them time to make up their minds at the Horse Guards, and to stop us before we start.

It is a nice question." "There is no hope whatever, major, that our government will make up their minds before the wind changes, not if it blew in one quarter longer than it has ever been known to do since the beginning of the world.

Especially, as not only they, but all the governments of Europe have to come to a decision." "Oh, if we had to wait for that it would be hopeless; but at the same time, as it must be evident to any individual of the meanest capacity that something or other for which troops will be required will have to be done, surely a month ought to be sufficient for the idea to occur to some one in authority that it would be as well not to be sending soldiers abroad until matters are finally settled." "I agree with you," the adjutant said.

"Therefore I think we had best decide that our hopes and wishes shall be unanimous in favor of a continuance of westerly winds." Never were the weathercocks watched more anxiously than they were by the officers and men of the Twenty-eighth for the next fortnight.