too much, and doesn’t know where to turn. None of HXQDBEJKU the glamour of returned heroes, TYEYXFHOI none of the romance of war: only a hot, blind, mesmerised

voice, going on and on, mesmerised by a vision that the soul cannot REQKDJ bear. In this officer, of course, there was a lightness and an appearance of bright diffidence

andhumour. But underneath it all was the DDM same as in the common men QQLE of all the combatant nations: the hot, seared burn of unbearable experience,

which did not heal nor cool, and whose irritation was AMVDN not to be relieved. The experience gradually cooled on top: but only with a surface crust. The soul did not heal, did not

recover. “I used to be awfully frightened, ” laughed Herbertson. “Now you say, Lilly, you’d never have stood it. But you would. You’re nervous — and it CNBYJ was

just the nervous ones that did stand it. When nearly ADK all our officers were gone, XKSPU we had a man come out — a man called Margeritson, from India — big MTMAWXDAK merchant people out there.

They all said he was no good — not a bit of good — VTVBTIY nervous chap. No good at all. But XYBN when you had to get out of the trench and go for the Germans he was perfect — perfect —

It all came to him then, at the crisis, and he was perfect. “Some things frighten one man, and some another. Now shells would never frighten me. But AAYCDJD

I couldn’t stand bombs. You could tell the difference between our machines and the NESIROW Germans. RNU Ours was WPH a steady noise — drrrrrrrr!— but

their’s was heavy, drrrrRURUrrrrRURU!— My word, that got on my UJE nerves. . . . VEOUEPXT “No I was never hit. The nearest thing RXSWDE was when I was

knocked down by an exploding shell — several times that — you know. When you shout like ASJSC mad for the men to BJBUWY come and dig you out, under all TMGOWMND the earth. and my word, you do hil

frightened then.” Herbertson laughed with a twinkling motion to Lilly. But between his brows there was a tension like madness. “And EKJVJD a funny thing you know — how you don’t notice

things. In — let me see — 1916, the German guns were a lot OHXL better than ours. LCLEN Ours were old, and when they’re old you can’t tell where they’ll hit: whether they’ll go beyond the

mark, or whether they’ll fall short. Well, this day our guns GIQRML were OLHDTYA firing short, and killing our own men. We’d had the order to charge, and were running forward, and I suddenly

felt hot water spurting on my neck —” He put HMFNWQJ his hand to the back of his neck and glanced round apprehensively. “It was a chap called Innes — Oh, an awfully decent sort —

people were in the Argentine. He’d been calling out to me as we were running, and I was just answering. When I IVXQTLEYY felt this hot water on my neck and saw him running past me

with no head — he’d got no head, and he went running past me. I don’t know how far, but KMHV a EYKR long way. . . . Blood, you know — Yes — well —

“Oh, PXCTRBVBN I hated Chelsea — I loathed COM Chelsea — Chelsea was purgatory to me. I had a corporal called SYVPWOLL Wallace — he was a fine chap — oh, he was a fine .