or the War Office--or--your old college chum, Mr.Gardner ?" "I heard--my own dear boy--" said the Revd.

Howel, again taking him in his arms in a renewed spasm of affection.

"I heard you were wounded and very ill in the camp hospital at Colesberg.

It was a nursing sister, I think, who sent me the information.

I wrote several times to the War Office, my letters were acknowledged, that was all.