We seem able to make no headway against her, in spite of our best efforts." "Let us see what better efforts we can make then," cried Wolfe, with eager eyes.

"Best! why, man, we have done nothing but procrastinate and blunder, till my ears tingle with shame as I read the story! But we are awakening at last, and we have a man to look to who is no blunderer.

The tide will turn ere long, you will see; and when it does, may I be there to see and to bear my share!" Julian looked at the gaunt, prostrate form of the soldier, and said gravely: "But you are surely in no fit state for military service ?" Wolfe threw back his head with a little gesture of impatience, and then smiled brightly.
"This carcass of mine has been a source of trouble and pain to me from my boyhood, and there come moments when I must needs give it a little rest.

But yet I have found that it can carry me through the necessary fatigues with a vigour I had scarcely expected of it.

It is being patched up again after a hard campaign; and now that the summer has closed, nothing can be set afoot till the spring comes.
By that time I shall be fit for service once more, you will see.