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 US ruKESIlADOWS OF COMING TROUBLES. wamin2 CHAPTER XV. ^^AP. That same 18th of October which disclosed the enemy's power of repairing his shattered defences brought with it besides other knowledge of a kind to be yet more unwelcome, jrr Calvert's Without merit or fault of mine, it happened to me, the same da}', to be made the means of cast- ing upon Lord Eagian's mind the shadow of approaching calamity. Mr Cattley was a gentle- man of much good sense and intelligence, who acted as interpreter at the English Headquarters.''^ On the 18th of October he came to me in my tent, and spoke to this effect: 'I see now that ' this siege is likely to last a long time, and wliat ' I fear is, that if Sebastopol should not fall in ' the interval of autumn time yet remaining, there ' may be an idea of wintering here. But does ' Lord Kaglan know what a winter liere is likely 'to be ? The army would have to encounter • His 710171 de guerre was 'Calvert,' there being reasons which at the time made it desirahle that his real name .shouhl not become known to the enemy. lie had been English Con- 6ul at one of the ports— at Kertch, if I rightlj- remember.