You may command a regiment within five or six years later, and be a brigadier soon after that, for you will have that by seniority.

Of course, if you marry you will have to consider your wife's wishes; but she is not likely to object to your staying on, if you get to be a major, for a major's wife is by no means an unimportant item in a regiment." "Ah! Well, we needn't think about that," Lisle laughed, "especially as, if there is war with Russia before we come home, a good many of us will certainly stay out permanently.

Well, old man, I do congratulate you, most heartily." Miss Merton, after some demur, agreed that it would be just possible for her to be ready at the end of a month.

Three days later the two friends went up to town and, after undergoing a medical examination, were told that they must rejoin their regiments in a couple of months.

As both regiments were in India, they decided to return in the same ship.
"I am not sorry that we are off," Lisle said, when they met on the deck of the P.and O.steamer.