"'There was two,' says, the orse-captain, sniggerin.
"Plumpy turns on his heel.
"'Damme you might ha left me the prisoners, Bill,' says he. 'Given my chaps a taste o the stuff after all their trouble.' And he says it so ot and uffy like that the Genelman, leanin against the wall, laughs.
"The orse-captain heard him, and pokes in.
"'Who's that?' he says.
"Then when he saw the Genelman agin the wall, he offs his helmet—he knoo what was what did the orse-captain, I will say that.
"'Can we do anything for you, sir?' says he, hushed like.
"'Nothing for Sailor and me, thank you,' says the Genelman. 'I don't know about Soldier there.'
"'I'll send a man back to Lewes for a doctor at once,' says the orse-captain. 'We must be going on. There's a scare all over the country that Fighting Fitz has landed at Pevensey at the head of a Cavalry Division.'
"The Genelman laughed a bit.