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I now left the room on my way to dinner, and was beginning to enjoy som potage a la bonne femme

e when aeros room I saw my little friend advancing. Ho had no trench coat on and on his have my the emblem which no com- missioned rank salutes. Also us be advanced he rubbed his hands together and with an ingratiating smile seated himself opposite me. I suppose 1 looked surprised, as he immediately broke out — Yes, I know I have only one pip, bus 1] shall be in to-morrow's Gazette for my

I arrived at a certain place in France, cross tired, and dirty My efforts were directed to rejoining my unit, which had left some six months before, owing to & pirce of surapriel intended for our onemies embedding itself in my right leg. I was sufficiently recovered to be anxions to see my old surviving friends, but not well enough to appreciate the hour of the RTOs, Town Majors, and others of the same profession. The RT.0 to third pip. You know the General calls particular station, who was considerably.

me one of his boys, and he said to me the any junior in rank, but apparently did not know it, or anything about trains other day Jouci, my boy, you have. saved the country & hundred thousand either, turned me over to the Town

pounds; yon shall have your third pip, I think "Major, who lived some miles away

and any decoration you like. reported myself in the Town Major, who the Militars Cross is tus common," said was a most genial old gentleman hul Jones, condescendingly I like the knew less about trains thao the TO, D.30, bút on the whole I think the and the end of the meeting was a litt. is most

nos distinguished. What do set speech by the gentleman to the effect you think I answered that decora that, if I wanted to, I could go to the tians did not seem to come my nearest camp, five miles away for a bed I didn't know much about then. Wait and for food-well, 1 should have to feed till you get up there, he said mysteri you can't miss on if you come If you come myself and, in the far and distant future, by writing letters might recover

he said gloatingly thorough I said By the way, three francs a day from the GovernICULA The Town Major coughed after this catch your

Jones, he replied speech and said: I shouldn't recam with dignity. And what is your

the mend it, you know, and, by the way, I asked humbly. Genndo Couronne is the best hotel; you quarters. Staff hom salvage, can do it for 15 francs a day en pension officer I ran the camouflage factors. I there, but of course you can claim any make things appear to be what they are allowance from the Government. not I make shum trees; dummy sau

bugs, my business is to fool people with clever And Jonentions, and do it very well knew the word?

I thanked the old gentleman ard went to the Grande Couronne my mind was at rest. There had been a time when was nearly anxious to lay down my life

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on the altar of my country, but if RT.0, was once, but ed Don't you THE GAY, HAPPY. SUCCESSFUL

it's French, For to come in years

if you want to and Town Majors -

the I felt it was got for me.

deter gonelhing t

You an adjective to ained to hibernate till either any name turned ally le

before the astonished R.T.0.0-and-go or I was

lost in the simplified card index system, in which case I should see the end of the war from the security of n niec hotel in Central France and fight my battles daily over a glass of Kimmel at one of the little tables in the neigh bouring cafe. Thus soliloquizing, I pas ed through the

portals of the Grands Couronne, and advancing to the office in my French for a room but

her shoulders and said His story was really most interesting: Madame sbrugged her she was utterly grieved to say there were how he buried the countless dead of all

how the no rooms left. I perceived

nationalities, indiscriminately, but with R.TO. and the Town Major, by losing reverence; how he sorted the equipment the train of the day before yesterday 3 scattered on the held of battle: how the fearful time-table they, both in vain factories of his design cleaned these equip tried to fatham; not yet having discovered ments and fresh soldiers marcher The train

that started next week, were equipments snatched from the

rooms, and digger and used again and again. inwittingly 6lling Madame's ro

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ON THE THIN FOLKS.

The thin Johnnio above needs Bargol which would help him to draw every atom of strength, blood and nourishment from the food he cats.

out

his story here your blood can carry it to every

at the same tune extracting 15 franes & was gretion for the Lax-

day from officers whose fotal income with a would not have lasted them at this rate

ax-

sotnething that takes call it a camouflage camouflage our trench when we cover them with wire and then put grass on them. Later on we

Politi shall camouflage our thoughts, einns won't talk with their intimate

Bargol, to our mind, is the most wonder- and Weight Increas friends of how to conceal their actions, but how to camoulinge them. You note ful Flesh-Producing what I say that word will become part ing treatment in the World cientific of the English language,

How very remedy based on the theory that excessive lation; that the sugara, fats, albuminoids interesting said. Tell me, shout it.tations cases from inperfect food assimi And he did.

and searches in your food ses passing out of your body to-day just as live coal sheke out of a wide grate when only partly con

umed. It's up to you. Stop this fearful: waste with Gargol Let this new-found treatment aid your poor disordered" of kilter intestinal machinery to turn all this flesh-making food you put in your mouth each day into its proper channel pars of the nad turn it late healiby

the body fascinated by his Is not in

Sargol make his already vast fortune greater

of England testify to its marvellous quali- use for hope amongst the group of taking contracts for clearing up this outier One lady writes to say I could

and as fire of ever getting

for the French Governinerit, even try with the Government, and that was that wept in the bed next to him I wondered hardly ed anything and was not able

sit up three days out of a week, with why did Madame having made them overdraw at

not choose our Generals. We Cox's a machine gun bullet might catch frosly from anong such men as Jones stomach trouble... 1 took only two horse them before sufficient pay had accumulat. For two days we had our meals together, of Sargol and can eat anything y ed to make good the deficiency in their and daily he harangned the Town Major weight way 120 pounds. Now I weigh 140 account at that celebrate bank on the urgency of his return to the front, and feel better than I have for five years. and finally on the third day he rushed A gentleman writes: I gained: 94 Turning on my heel, with protestations its our room and said the General was pounds with 23 days treatment. of thanks to reached the exit, however, sending a car for him, and those a bo

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THE EDWARD DISPENSARY, car had come sooner than he expected, you don't mind, I'll share my room with pip opposite me, and concluded that the you." "Now, I don't like sharing a room that the General had probably had a with any one but this offer was made disaster and wanted things salvaged a hit, with such genuine kindness and persun

casualties, and sion that I immediately agreco, and or required Jones to camouflage his eventually I forgot my shortly the little man and I were bored little friend.

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door. I never

ira:

countenance." Herpoleonic cust of up there I recalled Jones' ominous

he was

was my attach

into a room with two beds & lowed himself out and left us alone. The In due course the RTOs and Town little man began to strut about the room Major, discovered a train and stumbled and harangue me on the iniquities of the on my remo at the psychological moment. R. T.Os. and Town Majors and I tried Then I was called upon to uproot myself

k. He looked from The Grande Couronne, and vain to guess his rank about forty and

had

am," he said jerk of bill I found that Jones had

head

with disgust. On asking anxious to get back to the front. for my Haven't had leave for nine months. Just informed Madame that returned from an inspection at the base od officer and that I paid for him. I was Seven hundred inen waiting for me, with pained, but I paid and I smiled to no orders to carry on, and the B.T.Os myself as I remembered how Jones used and Town Majors, who have never seen ostentatiously to fill my glass with the a shot fired, do everything to dislocate expensive wing we shared, and I promised my work. I shall report them when I get back to Divisional Headquarters wat Jones none day the pleasure of meeting and thought I did meet Jonce again. I met him the ympathetic and attending the to Bicep next day quite unexpectedly: It was at a

happadier

alone,

my

fate was with a

or some one of equal wayside station, before you got up importance. Here in this town. b there," and it was a shock, for even the THE ROYAL and are Majors seventeen days over solitary pip was missing, and Jones due from leave, An officer was put under merched between an escort, and gyve arrest yesterday by telegram from his were on his wrists. He gave me a sort

because the R.1.O could not find the of look as if to any: It was worth it traine

you and the R.T.0, and case. I am Headquarters Staff, and the the

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TARO would not listen to me. It is altogether antru If I wasn't an officer dreadfuls shall telegraph, to the I had the brains Major-General,

being one, and if

I wasn't a salvage-officer to sion, I did salve one officer's unifor

to wash and prepare for dinner, and on and Ped good use! I've had

time,

While this harangue proceeded I began

lived for the last fortnight tarning, round perceived. my little friend my

entitle me to had produced a map

on the where my brains ent Laying it

be Now tablo, he said Perhaps you would car do your worst The NC.O. in charge detained to see how we are doing up there, lagged behind the escort, and I He jerked his head in a vague way which him a minute to ask who the prisoner was

me Save on the feeling that he came from Deserter, Sir. Private J Jones. Sir, where life was uncertain Blankshire Regiment. Caught at Har and death stared you in the face

at every monsters marskerading as an officer, Bir turn. I bent over

The sergeant smartly saluted, and the map with genuine interest, and will bold strokes of his heard him in the distance addressing rather dirty finger be pointed out the line words of sarcastic advice to his prisoner we held in September, how we took this on deportment and other qualities which

a

and that trench, and Gnally the secret are generally attributed to officers alone.

line,

of the present

and that in the greatest confidence. Here,

you вес па

saidie ve Banked

the them, there we out

"Nanolean the NATO Bestares wera

the passing

detail for sifat road fact fro

immensely

mere

I saw, under his coat a roy

of ribbons denoting reckless courage knowledge of his prodecorative kind.

sator, and possibly

one or two of & mere

Memos

in Ex

FINANCIAL CONFERENCE."

The Zurich correspondent of the Cea ml News writes: The much-talked of international financial conferencsat

might wear red tabs," he remarked, "but Berne resolves itself into an endeavour

at

WANA because people

on the part of the Central Powers to the fallows in the

the dispose of about one milliard

worth of trenches, so I just don't wa

the Chinese bonds for which, through the theme medium of Swiss bankers and financiers, think it is more distinguis

ther wanted

the Swiss bankers RTOI and Commandants, don't applying to the Entente Baanciers they know the horrors of trench

were informed that *** I don't kno

the only condition they

on which the would consider the transac- th the Central Powers should purchase Turkish bonds from them. Up to the present nothing has come af the negotiations.

Borne have, teen, service,

supp

But not up there he said, and jerked his head again in that suggestive way

No perhaps not answered guard- edly.

tion was

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