However, I can see no necessity for your proclaiming your identity on the trip down.

Indeed, it may prove the safer course, and technically I presume you may be considered as on furlough.

Travel as you please, Lieutenant, but I suggest it will be well to wear the uniform of your rank when you deliver the letters.

Is that all ?" "I think of nothing more." Fifteen minutes sufficed to gather together all my belongings, and change from blue into gray, and, as I emerged from quarters, the officers of the garrison flocked about me with words of congratulation and innumerable questions.

Universal envy of my good fortune was evident, but this assumed no unpleasant form, although much was said to express their belief in my early return.
"Anyway, you are bound to wish you were back," exclaimed Hartley, the senior captain, earnestly.