All further details you will learn from Colonel Wauchop, and the paymaster will have orders to issue two months' pay to each of you, in advance.

The distance will be about a hundred and fifty miles, and you will perform it in five days." Colonel Wauchop then addressed a few words to the officers, all of whom were under the rank of captain.
"Gentlemen," he said, "you have an honourable task before you.

For years we have been waiting for the day when our swords might aid to place our king upon the throne.

At last it has come.

I need not say that the struggle will be a severe one, and that your courage will be taxed to the utmost, but you have proved that in a score of desperate fights.
"The task before you will need tact to no ordinary degree.