I have no doubt that was the foundation of both our dreams.

It is all natural enough when we come to think it over calmly.

I think, by the way, we had better agree to say nothing at all about it in the regiment.' "' I should think not,' Charley said.

'We should never hear the end of it; they would chaff us out of our lives.' "We kept our secret, and came at last to laugh over it heartily when we were together.

Then the subject dropped, and by the end of a year had as much escaped our minds as any other dream would have done.