I do not like letting you go, lad, and yet I feel it is of such importance that the garrison should know that aid will be at hand before long, that I feel I ought not to prevent you from carrying out your enterprise.

When do you think of starting ?" "At eight in the morning, sir.

If we do so we shall easily reach Chivasso before dark, and may be near Turin by morning." "I will have my note for the commandant ready by the time your horses are at the door.

I will make it as small as possible, and you had better before you start sew it up in the lining of your coat, so that if you are searched--which I own I do not think to be likely, unless in some other way you excite the suspicions of the Spaniards--it may not be found upon you." "I think, sir, that I would rather make it into a little pellet which I can swallow.

I fancy that if they were suspicious enough to search me they would rip all the linings open." "That would be a better way certainly, Campbell; I see that you have thought the matter over thoroughly.