I went back to Sebastopol on the very day after you arrived here, with a regiment marching down, and left again with a convoy of wounded after only two days' stay there.

I got here last night, and I had intended coming out to call upon you at Count Preskoff's to-day.

You would, no doubt, like me to see him at once, and inform him of what has taken place." Jack said that he would be very much obliged, if he would do so.
"I will return this afternoon to see my patient," Doctor Bertmann said, as they parted, "and will then bring you news from the count, who will, no doubt, come to see you himself." The cell to which the boys were conducted was a small one, and horribly dirty.

Jack shrugged his shoulders, as he looked at it.
"It is not fit for a pig," he said to himself.

"After all, Russia is not such a pleasant place as I thought it yesterday." When they were left alone, Jack set to work to cheer up his companion, who was weak, and inclined to be despondent from the loss of blood which he had suffered.
"At any rate, old boy," Jack said, in reply to Dick's assertion of his conviction that they would be shot, "we shall have the satisfaction that we have procured the safety of our friends at the chateau.