it. May I live to see you a general, with a lot more
orders on your breast. But there is something more I want to say. I
dined with Bob Dickenson and old Sawbones last evening, and in the chat
after dinner over the promotions Dickenson told me about that episode
which occurred after I was bowled over by that shot and you saved my
life, according to your noble custom. When Bob D. told me how I accused
you of being a coward, I felt quite knocked over. Of course it is as
Emden says--I was, in a way, mad as half-a-dozen hatters, and enough to
make me, with a part of my something or another--I forget what the
doctor called it, but he meant brain-pan--bent in on my thinking
apparatus. You a coward! Why, I confess now that a petty feeling of
jealousy often worried me, through every one thinking so much of you and
the way in which you always came up smiling after no end of brave
doings. A coward! My word! Why didn't you punch my head? There, I
don't say forgive me, because I know you do one who is proud to call you
his best and bravest friend. That last is what I told Bob Dickenson you
were, and he looked quite proud. You will be glad to hear that my wound
is quite healed up; and as to the lump on my skull, the absolute truth,
honesty, and sincerity of every word in this letter must show you that
there is no trouble as to my knowing what I say.--Yours always, my dear
Lennox, Mark Roby. Captain Drew Lennox, V.C.

THE END.

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