Perhaps you might find someone of a more self-sacrificing nature who would take the matter in hand." "Perhaps I might, but I rather fancy that I should not.

The only man who could do it is Willcocks.

After the victories he has won, even the War Office could hardly have the face to retire him from the service for making such a suggestion.

Besides, the public would never stand it; and he is just the sort of fellow to carry out the idea, if he took to it." "I agree with you, Bullen, as in the end I almost always do, and should suggest most strongly that you lay the matter before him.

No doubt, if he applied, the War Office would send out a hundred waterproofs and two hundred ground sheets, for the use of the officers, by the next ship sailing from England." "I might do it," Lisle laughed, "if it were not that the rainy season will be at an end before the things arrive here." "That is a very good excuse, Bullen; but I hope that, at any rate, you will carry out your idea before the next wet season begins--that is, if we are kept on here, as a punishment for our sins." At this moment one of the non-commissioned officers came in with a letter, and Hallett opened it.
"Oh dear," he said, in a tone of deepest disgust, "we are off again!" "Thank goodness!" Lisle said.