Consequently, a dispute is always stopped before it reaches a dangerous point, and if it goes further than usual, the parties are sent for by the colonel in the morning, both get heavily wigged, and the colonel insists upon the matter being dropped, altogether.

As the blood has had time to cool, both are always ready to obey his orders, especially as they know that he would report them at once to the general, if the matter were carried further." "Well, I shall certainly not be likely to get into a quarrel over wine," Desmond said, "nor indeed, in any other way, unless I am absolutely forced into it.

As to adventures such as you speak of, I am still less likely to be concerned in them.

I hope that, when we are ordered on service, I shall have a full share of adventures such as may become a soldier." O'Neil smiled.

"Time will show," he said.