But it really did seem to me a wild scheme, altogether.
I thought possibly we might get out of the fort, but I believed that your plan of getting disguises would break down altogether.
The rest seemed comparatively easy.
"The rain has ceased, and the stars are coming out, which is a comfort indeed.

One was often wet through, for days together, when campaigning; but after five months' coddling, an eight hours' tramp in a blinding rain would have been very unpleasant, especially as we have no change of clothes.
"Now, commanding officer, what is to be our next tale ?" "That is simple enough," Fergus said with a laugh.

"We have been down with a raft of timber from the mountains, and are on our way back.

That must be our story till we have passed Ratisbon.

There is but one objection, and that is a serious one.