Is there anyone you would like to choose, as I may as well take the whole scheme, cut and dried, to the general ?" "I should like Mr.Edwards, sir.

He is junior to me in the regiment, and is very active and zealous in the service; and I should greatly like to be allowed to enlist, temporarily, two of the scouts I have served with in the force, with power for them to take their discharge when they wished.

They would be of immense utility to me in instructing the men in their new duties, and would add greatly to our efficiency." "So be it," the colonel said.

"I will draw out the scheme on paper, and lay it before the general today." In the afternoon, James was again sent for.
"The earl has approved of my scheme.

You will have temporary rank as captain given you, in order to place your corps on an equal footing with the provincial corps of scouts.