It was a strange affair.

I may be stupid, but I cannot yet see her reason for wishing to take me out in the wet.
[Illustration: XII.

_Soldiers and Peasants, Cassel._] After working up there for about six weeks I began to feel very tired, and thought I would go for a change; so I decided to run away and go and see some "Bases"-- Dieppe, Le Havre and Rouen.

The day after I reached Dieppe I received a telegram from the "Colonel": "When do you return ?" to which I replied: "Return where, please ?" to which apparently no reply could be made.

But two days later I received a letter from him saying he was moving to another job, but would always remember the honour of his having had me working under him.