“About the enemy?”
“Yes; you’ve been doing nothing lately, and my last bed was vacated to-day.”
“I am very sorry that you should be in so low a condition, Doctor,” said the Colonel coldly; “but you must understand that I shall do my best to keep you so.”
“Why, of course,” cried the Doctor. “You don’t suppose I want to have the poor fellows cut or shot down to keep me busy—do you?”
“You spoke as if you did?”
“Then I spoke clumsily,” cried the Doctor. “But tell me—the Dwats are collecting again—are they not?”
“Yes; they mean to give us no rest.”
“So much the better for the men. Keep ’em active. You boys had any sport to-day?”
“Yes; we got six mountain sheep,” said Roberts.
“Safe into camp?” said the Doctor eagerly.