How extraordinary that he should not have remembered before! It was the regiment sent in pursuit.

Langrishe would fall in for some fighting--he would find it ready-made to his hand.

Those little frontier wars were endless things once they started.

And what toll they took of precious human lives! In the last one more young fellows of the General's acquaintance had been killed than he liked to remember.

Such deaths, too! Even the bravest soldier might well shrink from the fiendish things the Wazees were capable of.
Suddenly the train pulled up abruptly, so abruptly that for a few seconds it quivered as a horse will after being hard-driven.