No time has been lost, for that is eighty miles away, and it is but five o'clock now.

How far have you brought this dispatch, sir ?" "I have brought it from Elmside, general; twenty miles on the other side of Bath.

A trooper brought it in just at midday, with orders for me to carry it on at once." "That is good work," the general said.

"You have ridden over fifty miles in five hours.

You must be well mounted, sir." "I do not think there is a better horse in the State," Vincent said, patting Wildfire's neck.
The general called an orderly.
"Let this man picket his horse with those of the staff," he said, "and see that it has forage at once.