Our business will be to prevent any of the French moving along there, and coming down on your rear." "I am pleased to hear it.

I believe that there is a Spanish division there, but I am glad to know that the business is not to be left entirely to them.

Now, what have you been doing since you left us, a month ago ?" "I have been doing nothing, Colonel, but watching the defiles and, as no one has come up them, we have not fired a shot." "No doubt they got news that you were there, Terence," O'Grady said, "and not likely would they be to come up to be destroyed by you." "Perhaps that was it," Terence said, when the laughter had subsided; "at any rate they didn't show up, and I was very pleased when orders came, at ten o'clock yesterday, for us to leave Banos and march to join the army.

We did the forty miles in fourteen hours." "Good marching," Colonel Corcoran said.

"Then where did you halt ?" "About three miles farther off, at the foot of the hills.