"It was talked over at headquarters.

Le Gaire is rich, and Hardy hasn't much left, I reckon, and the captain filled him up with fairy tales.

Some of them drifted about among the boys.

There were others told also not quite so pleasant, which Hardy did not hear.

You see, none of us cared to repeat them, after we realized Miss Willifred was interested in the man." "You mean duelling ?" "No, that was rather mild; fellows in his regiment mostly cut him dead, and say he is yellow; generally in the hospital when there's a battle on.