I should be obliged if you would give orders to the officer in command that one of the troopers should bring the horses, cloaks, and hats back here with him." The governor rang a bell, and on an orderly entering said: "Tell Captain Sion to have his troop in readiness to start in an hour's time, in order to form an escort for one of Viscount Turenne's officers, and tell him that when he has the troop ready to start he is to come to me for detailed orders.

I have said an hour, Monsieur Campbell," he went on, after the orderly had left the room, "because, in the first place, it is not yet dark, and in the second, it will take some twenty minutes to prepare a meal.

You will have a long night's work before you, and I dare say you have had nothing since you halted for breakfast." "Thank you, colonel, I had not thought of it; but I should certainly have remembered it before tomorrow morning.

We halted for breakfast at eleven, and if it had not been for your kind offer we should have had no chance of getting anything till we entered Turin, and even there the less we go into any cabarets the better." "That is true.

I have sent a message to the cook that twenty minutes is the utmost we can give for the preparation of a meal.".