As you know, I am very well off, and the loss would not affect me in any way.

Very likely you will light upon some rich booty in one of these affairs with a rebel Rajah, and will be able to pay it all off at once." "I will if I can, Mallett, though I think that it will be much more satisfactory to do it out of my savings, except that I shall have the pleasure of knowing that if I were wiped out afterwards you would not be a loser." A few days later Frank Mallett was sent with his company to rout out a party of rebels reported to be in possession of a large village twenty miles away.

Armstrong was laid up by a slight attack of fever, and he asked that Marshall should be appointed in his place on this occasion.
"One wants two subalterns, Colonel," he said, "for a business like this.

I may have to detach a party to the back of the village to cut off the rebels' retreat, and it may be necessary to assault in two places." "Certainly.

Take Marshall if you wish it, Captain Mallett.