a new gymnasium. The one we have is a freak; but that
won't break me, either."

"A hundred pounds!" said the doctor. Delightful visions of endless
rolls of bandages, antiseptics, medicines, nurses, litters, shelter
tents, beds, and food appeared before the doctor's delighted eyes. "A
hundred pounds!" he repeated. "Zaidos, Zaidos, you will erect a
monument to your cousin finer--" he choked, then turned, and with an
arm over Zaidos' shoulder continued: "Well, Zaidos, it is hard for an
Englishman, and an old Englishman at that, to express what he feels;
but, my boy, I am as proud of you as though you were my own son! Proud
of you, Zaidos! You are perfectly sure you mean it?"

"Of course," said Zaidos, laughing. "I think the thing to do is to put
money in a bank and fix it so you yourself can draw it, as needed, at
the rate of five hundred a month. I'll be busy in school catching up
so I won't be able to see to it."

"Wonderful! Wonderful!" said the doctor. "I think I will go see the
General, Zaidos. I have got to tell someone. I can never keep all
this to myself."

He went hurrying off and Zaidos watched him. Once he bumped into a
tree and twice an orderly called him. He made no reply. He was
thinking with whirling brain of the lives he would be able to save.

Then he reached the General's tent, and burst in unceremoniously. They
had been classmates at college.

"Dick," cried the doctor, "Dick, the most amazing thing has happened!"
and with a rush of words he poured out the fine news.

"Well, bless me, bless me!" cried the General, shoving back from the
table where a map of Europe was spread. "Now, Henry, I know just how
well pleased you are. Why, what wonderful things you can do with all
that money! But are you sure the lad will do as he says?"

"You ought to know that lad, Dick!" exploded the doctor. "He's the
finest boy! He's just what you would have wanted your boy to be like,
if you had loved some girl, and had married her, and had had a baby,
and it had grown up. He won't disappoint me, rest assured of that!"

And Zaidos didn't.

When, after a long, slow and anxious journey, Helen and Tony and Zaidos
finally reached London, Zaidos left the young married pair in the
charge of a full battalion of relatives that had advanced in close
formation as their train drew into the station, and proceeded at once
to the office of a lawyer who was none other than Tony's cousin Jack.
It took only a