Your record is an excellent one and, if you are willing and able to go, we shall be glad to include you in the number." "I should like it very much.

There is no chance, whatever, of active service in India; and I should be glad, indeed, to be at the front again, in different circumstances." "Very well, Mr.Bullen, then you will sail on Tuesday next, in the steamer that leaves Liverpool on that day.

You will have the local rank of captain, and will be in command of a company of Hausas." Lisle had but a few preparations to make.

He ordered, at once, a khaki uniform and pith helmet, and a supply of light shirts and underclothing.

Then he ran down to Somersetshire to say goodbye to his uncle and aunt, and arrived in Liverpool on the Monday evening.
Sleeping at the hotel at the station, he went on board the next morning.
Here he found half a dozen other officers, also bound for the west coast of Africa, and soon got on friendly terms with them.