"You fancied it all." "Um ?" "You fancied it all.

They would not come on in the night." "Boss Val wait a bit.

Come soon." "Ugh!" I ejaculated; and a voice somewhere near whispered, "Silence in the ranks!" The command was needed, for a low murmur was beginning to make itself heard.
All was still again directly after, and the time glided slowly on again, till that which I expected came suddenly; for I heard the trampling of feet behind me in the darkness, and a voice whispered, "Where's that new recruit Moray ?" "I am here, sir," I said.
"Quick! the Colonel wants you." I left my post, and another man stepped into my place, while I followed the sergeant who had summoned me.
"I say, young fellow," he said, "you're in for a bullying.

The Colonel's horribly wild about your false alarm.

Are you sure the Doppies were coming on ?" I told him what I had learned, and that I had felt obliged to report it.
"Humph! Yes, of course; but it's a great pity, when the men wanted rest." The next minute I was facing the Colonel in the middle of the pass, where he stood with a group of the officers, about half-way between the two lines of men facing up and down, but lying so close that they were only visible here and there.
"Oh, here you are, young fellow!" were the words that saluted me, spoken in a low, angry whisper.