"I have no experience whatever in matters of that kind." "This will be a good opportunity for you to serve an apprenticeship," the king said decidedly.

"There is no chance of anything being done here, for months, and as you will have no opportunity of using your sword, you cannot be better employed than in polishing up your wits.

I will speak to Colonel Jamieson about it this evening.

Count Piper will give you full instructions, and will obtain for you, from some of our friends, lists of the names of the men who would be likely to be most useful to us.

You will please to remember that the brain does a great deal more than the sword, in enabling a man to rise above his fellows.