mail

He set out, and on the Saturday evening reached the Place de la Douane by the mail-coach.

“Father brought the paper home from Bright River not ten minutes ago--it came out on the afternoon train, you know, and won’t be here till tomorrow by mail--and when I saw the pass list I just rushed over like a wild thing.

His opened mail lay like a bank of stage snow on his crowded desk.

War was again proclaimed, however, and when the trumpet summoned him to his standard, the Soldier put on his charger its military trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail.