IN SWEDEN 81

It is true that when we met last you said that if matters
went wrong in England you should come out here instead
of taking refuge in France; but as everything is quiet, 1
had little hope of seeing you again until I paid another
visit to Scotland, of which at present there is but little
prospect. Have you grown tired of doing nothing, and is
it a desire to see something of a stirring life that has
brought you over here?”

Mr. Jervoise related shortly the events by which he had
been driven into exile, and expressed his desire to serve in
the army of Sweden, and that his son and young Carstairs
should also enter the army. ‘They are but sixteen yet,”
he said, “but are stout, active fellows, and could hold
their own in a day’s march or in a stout fight with many
men. Of course, if I could obtain commissions for them
all the better, but if not they are ready to enlist in the
ranks. Roughing it will do them no harm.”

“YVheir age is no drawback,” Major Jamieson said.
“There are many no older both in the ranks and as officers.
Men in Sweden of all ages and of all ranks are joining, for
this unprovoked attack on the part of Poland has raised
the national spirit to boiling heat. he chief difficulty
is their and your ignorance of the language. Were it not
for that T could obtain from the minister of war commis-
sions for you at once.” He sat thinking for some minutes
in silence. ‘I think I see how it can be managed, Jer-
voise. I have some twenty or thirty Scotchmen in my
regiment, and I know a colonel who has as many in his,
and these I could manage to get an exchange for an equal
number of my Swedes. Ships are coming daily from Scot-
land, and most of them bring young fellows who have come
out to join the army.

“Yau know how the Scots fought under eae avus Adol-
phus, and there is scarce a glen in Scotland where there
are not traditions of fathers or grandfathers who fought