5/30 Early as the hour was, the troops were already up and busy. Wagons were being loaded, the long lines of windows were all lighted up, and in every room men could be seen moving about. He drove across the barrack yard to his own quarters, left his portmanteau there, and then walked to the mess room. As he had expected, he found several officers there. You are the last in; the others all turned up by the evening train, but we thought that as you were comparatively near you would come on by the mail." "I thought I should find some of you fellows keeping it up." "Well, there was nothing else to do. |