If I go down, the estate goes, as you know, to a distant cousin whom I have never seen.
"As to other matters, I have but little to arrange.

I have made a will, so that I shall have nothing to trouble me on that score.
Tranton came over with it this morning from Stroud, and I signed it." "That is right, lad; we all hope most sincerely that there will be no occasion for its provisions to be carried out, but it is always best that a man should get these things off his mind.

Are you going to say goodbye to us tonight ?" "I shall do it as a precautionary measure, Sir John, but I expect that when I get the summons I shall have time to drive over here.
My horse will do the distance in five and twenty minutes, and unless a telegram comes within an hour of the night mail passing through Stroud, I shall be able to manage it.

I saw everything packed up before I left, and my man will see that everything, except the portmanteau with the things I shall want on the voyage, goes on with the regimental baggage." A quarter of an hour later Captain Mallett mounted his dog cart and drove home.

The next morning he received a letter from the Adjutant, saying that he expected the order some time during the next day.
"We are to embark at Plymouth, and I had a telegram this morning saying that the transport had arrived and had taken her coal on board.