Oie" (to whom long life and princely royalties).

(6) The sodden Field Note-book of a dead Hun given me by Major
C---- of the Intelligence, with a graceful note expressing the hope
that, as a man of letters, I would accept this gift of
_belles-lettres_.

(7) A duplicate of a certain priceless "chit" about the uses of
Ammonal[30] (original very scarce, and believed to be in the
muniment-room of the C.-in-C., who is said to contemplate putting
it up to auction at Sotheby's for the benefit of the Red Cross
Fund).

(8) An autograph copy of a learned Essay on English political
philosophers presented to me by the author, one of the _liaison_
officers, who in the prehistoric times of peace was a University
professor at Avignon.

(9) A cigarette-case (Army pattern), of the finest Britannia metal,
bestowed on me with much ceremony by a Field Ambulance at Bethune,
and prized beyond rubies and fine gold.

(10) A pair of socks knitted by Jeanne.[31]

To these Madame[32] had added her visiting-card--it was nearly as big
as the illuminated address presented to me by the electors of a Scottish
constituency which I once wooed and never won--wherewith she reminded me
that my billet at No. 131 rue Robert le Frisson would always be waiting
for me, the night-light burning as for a prodigal son, and steam up in
the hot-water bottle.

I had said my farewells the night before to the senior officers on the
Staff, in particular that distinguished soldier and gallant gentleman
the A.G., to whose staff I had been attached (in more senses than one),
and who had treated me with a kindness and hospitality I can never
forget. The senior officers had done me the honour of expressing a hope
that I should soon return; their juniors had expressed the same
sentiments less formally and more vociferously by an uproarious song at
their mess overnight.

The latter had also, with an appearance of great seriousness, laden me
with messages for His Majesty the King, the Prime Minister, Lord
Kitchener, the two Houses of Parliament, and the ministers and clergy of
all denominations: all of which I promised faithfully to remember and to
deliver in person. Sykes, with more modesty, had asked me if I would
send a photograph, when the film was developed of the snapshot I had
taken of him, to his wife and the twins at Norwich.

My car, upon whose carburettor an operation fo