to-morrow for an examination." "He is quite unusually severe in his interpretation of the regulations, I understand," said his father.

"He is turning men down right and left.
He knows, of course, that there are plenty to choose from.

But there is no fear of your fitness, Barry." "Not much," said Barry, with a gay laugh.
Never had they spent a happier evening together.

True, the spectre of war would thrust itself upon them, but they faced it as men--with a full appreciation of its solemn reality, but without fear, and with a quiet determination to make whatever sacrifice might be demanded of them.

The perfect understanding that had always marked their intercourse with each other was restored.