Particulars are expected almost immediately.

I telegraphed to town to get the earliest possible details.

Meanwhile, Raby, don't alarm yourself unduly." "I won't, uncle; but where exactly was the battle ?" "You will see the names mentioned in the telegram.

Jeffreys can show you the exact spot in the atlas; we were looking at it the other evening." Jeffreys thankfully accepted the task.

He and Raby spent an hour over the map, talking of the absent soldier, and trying, the one to conceal, the other to allay, the anxiety which the incomplete telegram had aroused.
At the end of the hour Scarfe walked into the library.