As for Mr.Hilliard, he has performed feats that any officer in the army, whatever his rank, would be proud to have done.

He went in disguise into the Dervish camp at Metemmeh, before Hunter's advance began, and obtained invaluable information.

He jumped overboard from a gunboat to save a drowning Dervish woman, although to do so involved almost certain capture and death at the hands of the Dervishes.

In point of fact, his escape was a remarkable one, for he was tied to a tree in the first line of the Dervish defences at Atbara, and was only saved by what was almost a miracle.

He may not be heir to an earldom, Mr.Hartley, but he would do more credit to the title than many I could name.