I'm glad you have the entire command now.

As Mr.Lennox said, Providence saved me so far, but perhaps it wouldn't lend a helping hand any longer." The pack horses carried surgical supplies for the wounded, and Willet and Black Rifle were skillful in using them.

All of the hurt, they were sure would be well again within a week, and there was little to mar the general feeling of high spirits that prevailed in the camp.

Wilton and Carson were lads of mettle, full of talk of Philadelphia, then the greatest city in the British Colonies, and related to most of its leading families, as was Colden too, his family being a branch of the New York family of that name.

Robert was at home with them at once, and they were eager to hear from him about Quebec and the latest fashions of the French, already the arbiters of fashion, and recognized as such, despite the war between them, by English and Americans.
"I had hoped to go to Quebec myself," said Wilton reflectively, "but I suppose it's a visit that's delayed for a long time now." "How does it happen that you, a Quaker, are second in command here ?" asked Robert.
"It must be the belligerency repressed through three or four generations and breaking out at last in me," replied Wilton, his eyes twinkling.