In three days we start for the south.

The baron accompanied me here, and went to see your colonel, while I came to your quarters.

His object was to ask him to grant you a month's leave of absence, with the provision, of course, that you should return at once, if the regiment was ordered on service." "It is kind, indeed, of him," Desmond said, "but I doubt whether the colonel will assent.

It is not a month since I was dismissed from drill, and took my place with my company, and I doubt whether he will consider that I am sufficiently versed in my duties, or that, after being so short a time in the regiment, I have any right to leave." "What you say is right enough, under ordinary circumstances, but these are altogether extraordinary.

Then, after what you have done, he will feel it but natural that we should wish to have you with us for a time.