I am adjutant to the governor.

If it will not be inconvenient, I shall be glad if you will return with me, and report yourselves to him." "We are quite ready," Terence said.

"We have nothing to do in the way of packing up, for we have only the clothes we stand in; which were, indeed, the property of the captain of the lugger, who was killed in the action." Telling Captain Teniers that they would be coming down again, when they had seen the governor, the two friends accompanied the officer.

Very few words were said on the way, for the major entertained strong doubts whether Terence had not been hoaxing him, and whether the account he had given of himself was not altogether fictitious.

On arriving at the governor's he left them for a few minutes in the anteroom; while he went in and gave the account he had received, from the captain, of the manner in which the lugger had been captured; and said that the two gentlemen who had played so important a part in the matter were, as they said, one of them an officer on the staff of Lord Wellington and a colonel in the Portuguese army, and the other a subaltern in the Mayo Fusiliers.
"Why do you say, as they said,' major?
Have you any doubt about it ?" "My only reason for doubting is that they are both young fellows of about twenty, which would accord well enough with the claim of one of them to be a lieutenant; but that the other should be a captain on Lord Wellington's staff, and a colonel in the Portuguese service, is quite incredible." "It would seem so, certainly, major.