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GETTING OUT.
If you belong to aax of the following classes.
the Demobilization ad- So Lient. vertisement, do nothing. William Smith lil nothing.
After doing nothing for some weeks in a friend who said. Falls, are
bu out yet?***
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BARRISTER'S REMARKABLE
LETTER.
The undefended wait of Mys. Haber Eliza Mackenzie for a restitutide of con jugal rights was the erasion of the read 'ting in the Divorce Court of a warkable letter from her husband, Mr, Viving St. Pair Mackenzie, a barrister. The letter was dated Parcar's Buildings Temple. All Fools Day, 1948 and when fol
Set set. said William. looking at his spurs.
Well, xin ought to do something,"i Se Laut. Will Smith decided to something" He was a pivotal man and a slipman and a peman-busines and a' twenty eight-days-in-hospital on and a W." Letter ZXY pon man. Accordingly. be write to the War Bileg work toll then
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it was of L a little confusing for The authorities. Just as they began to see their way to getting hins {{་་ { pivotni man, siqnebeuty would devil's that it was quicker to demobilize him as n -one-man-business and when this was near- ly done, then saibody else would'paint our that it was really much master to reinstate him as a slip-tuan. Whereaped asih-section, just getting to work at
W. Letter ZXY 199 wuh big "to be allowed a little practice on William while he was still mabinbid, to the great disgust of the idical authorities," who had been hoping to study the symptoms of muffolk mobilization in Lieutenant Smith as evi- denved after twenty-eight-ilay in hoss pital.
Naturally, then, when another friend net William a month later and said. Hallo, are in't you out wet William Feould pály look, da his spurs again and
say, Not yet.
*Betten go to the War Offier and have a talk with womebody.” said his friend So Willi Went to the War Ofer First he had a falk with a policeman. and then he had a talk with a porter, and then he had a talk with as attends ant, and thers he had a talk with a sschwergirl and so, finally, he came
Peurt Belfe, I am glad to me wosir halsriting, and to be able to inter fro it that you are in good enough health write at dictation. Inhappily, soar lep ter is not griginal. I sed in it the sanie old weary
for which
T care and desiccateche sometimes, though not often. tear stained, on the table of every solicitor. whe
accepts a for stage-manage the warn uut farce which some women are compelled by law to perform Por the consolation of domestic, cowards and for the ediEention of those whether Rev marriage to be a partnerships in a enter feels business.
However, one prologne is is goed ge anther in such a piece, Very well: Th with the curtain: I do not blame gor. I repeach year with nothing. I merely abbinate a country which insists, unoin making Wornen hypocrites by Act of Par
tament.
You ask me to return to you. Where are you living Where is your horns to which you have reused all the rniture to-day And, why oh why did You degrade my ster, whom I love, by ask
her to be a Sheriff's officer? Does it not all show that ser appeal, or zather your solicitor's appeal, is a muñekory t
You want to the Etee. Veti have the right to he shall not left a finger tee frustrate your desire. You shall have your own way in the end a suman's crowning victory,
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forgotten anything that was pleasant You wrongly equale of POSTAGE inBdelity times out of number. Can you blare the poor devil who is always brande Mackguard H. in the end, he is persuaded that he is, and then does his best to play the part?
Yes best you may think in the years te one that I have been a hesly ninjust
t me say now in these "probably the last few words you shall ever receiver
from me, that shall do my best to hat to the end of a fupz quete of offers who
strip you in forketininess of all but kind were waiting to has a talk with womeness. I do not think that you have ever me spiteful. I am not now-- also
hally
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Suffolks
found
Not so inany here todas as Sester-might go to a solicitor and obtain from said a friendly Captain in the him soins such hidens invoice of bogus
who was next to him.
affection as that which you or they hay maid Williant. And wise gut Laent to me. an army on the Rhine, too, t
for the first mured to biniself realizing time the extent of England effort.
At the end of an hour he enleulated that he was within two or three hundred of the door. He had only lately come out of hospital and was beginning to feel rather weak.
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I shall have to give it up," he said. The Captain trid to encourage
There was with tales of gallantry. Lieutenant in the Manchesters sho had worked his way up on three casians to within Sfty of the door, at which poins he had collapsed each time frim exhaus tion: whereupon two kindly policemen bad carried him to the end of the queue again for air. He was still sticking to it.
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there's no chane of being suppose carried to the front of the queue said. William hopefully.
..
I forgive, but, as I hope to be an hoarge, man. I cannot forget, and I do not believe in those who say that ther can, If some of my thoughts in moments of agliness and silence could be con verted into blessings for some things balf unconsciously done by you, you will fare well I am merely a interim), torn dis-
putable husband, Vivian. His lordship granted the petilian,
It will be quicker after, n}!" he told himself as he took his place at the end of the quane next to a Lieutenant in the Manchesters. Don't crowd him.” sufd
policeman t
nto William, he wants air.") And you think perhaps that the story ends here with Willians in the que le
a
No, said the Captain fruly weagain? Oh no. Willian is a man of Añould to that."
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Then I shall have to go." sit Win Fam Sie
And as you tomorrow"," he left his place the quene behind his surged forward an inch and took new ¡courage.
A week later William suddenly rement- bered fones. Jones had been in the War Office a long time. It was raid of him that you could take him to any room in the building and he could find his way Whitehall in less than twenty inte
"" tem. zainutes. But then he was no mere
Fle had been the porary evil servant." author of that famous W.O. letter refer ring to Chevrons for Cold Shers which of Bada
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was responsible for the cebrated Army
joz: he had Council léstruction,
had issued the
are
ion, Commanding Offi sted to replace the which had demobilized Marlborough' prays speedily; and, as is well-known. Henry had often said that without Jones well, anyhow, he had len in the War Office a a long time, and William knew him slightly.
tban
I want to talk to somehody,” he exe plaited to fones.I can't manage more a couple of hours a day, in the queue just now, because I'm not very Bt.
I could sit down somewhere and tell. somebod all about myself, that's what F want. Any room in the building where there are no queues cutside and two chairs inside. I'd be very such obliged d to you Jones give you a pote to Briggs said "He's the fellow to get promptly. you out."
"Thanks aæfully," said the overjoyed
William
A messenger girl took him and the note to Captain Briggs. Briggs listened to the story of William's qualifications-or rather. disqualifications and considered for a moment.
we ought to get you out very said William. Thanks
he
quickly said.
axfully."
Walters will tell you just what to do. He's a pal of mine, i'll give you a note to him."
So in another minute the overjoyed Williard was following a messenger girl to the room of Lieutenans Walters.
Walters was very cheerful. The thing to do, he said, was to go to Banders. Sanders would get him out in half-an- hour. He'd give William a fote, and The then Banders would de his best.
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