"We will consider it
settled, and I shall look out for you in a couple of months, so get
well as quick as you can, and don't worry yourself by thinking of
the past. I must be off now, for I have to take down a party of
convalescents to rejoin this evening.
"Goodbye, lad," and without waiting for any reply, he turned and
left the marquee.
Chapter 5.
"It is little more than two years and a half since I left,
Lechmere, but it seems almost a lifetime."
"It does seem a time, Major. We must have marched thousands of
miles, and I could not say how many times we have been engaged.
There has not been a week that we have not had a fight, and
sometimes two or three of them."
"Well, thank God, we are back again. Still I am glad to have been
through it."
"So am I, sir. It will be something to look back on, and it is
curious to think that while we have been seeing and doing so much,
father and my brother Bob have just been going about over the farm,
and seeing to the cattle, and looking after the animals day in and
day out, without ever going away save to market two or three times
a month at Chippenham."
"And you have quite made up your mind to stay with me, Lechmere?"
"Quite, sir.
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