It is as well, I think, that this did not reach Marshal Massena." "My own assumption is that he put off sending it, intending to replace it by the actual plan--which he here confesses to the expectation of obtaining shortly." "I think he died at the right moment.

Anything else ?" "Indeed," said Colonel Grant, "I have kept the best for the last." And unfolding yet another document, he placed it in the hands of the Commander-in-Chief.

It was Lord Liverpool's note of the troops to be embarked for Lisbon in June and July--the note abstracted from the dispatch carried by Captain Garfield.
His lordship's lips tightened as he considered it.

"His death was timely indeed, damned timely; and the man who killed him deserves to be mentioned in dispatches.

Nothing else, I suppose ?" "The rest is of little consequence, sir." "Very well." He rose.