The second part begins in a very different scene and many, many miles away from Ryeburn.

Three or four years have passed.

Some of those we left boys are now men--many changes have taken place.

Instead of December, it is August.

Instead of England we have a far away country, which till that time, when the interest of the whole world was suddenly concentrated on it, had been but little known and still less thought of by the dwellers in more civilised lands.