That would be a tremendous affair, and I fancy that our Indian soldiers will give a good account of themselves.

If it is to be, I do hope it will come before I leave the army.

I am certainly in no hurry to do so." "You would be a fool, if you were," Hallett said.

"Thanks to your luck in getting a commission at sixteen, and to the loss of so many officers in the Tirah, you are now a captain at twenty-one, certainly the youngest captain in the service.

Of course, if there is no war, you can't expect to continue going up at that pace; but you certainly ought to be a major at thirty, if not before.