I desire you to publish this immediately in general orders, enjoining upon officers of all ranks without exception the necessity to postpone the settlement of private quarrels at least until the close of this campaign.

And to add force to this injunction you will make it known that any infringement of this order will be considered as a capital offence; that any officer hereafter either sending or accepting a challenge will, if found guilty by a general court-martial, be immediately shot." Sir Terence nodded slowly.
"Very well," he said.

"The measure is most wise, although I doubt if it will be popular.

But, then, unpopularity is the fate of wise measures.
I am glad the matter has not ended more seriously.

The dispatches in question, so far as I can recollect, were not of great urgency." "There is something more," said Captain Stanhope.