What is your name ?" "Ranulph Delagarde, sir." "Delagarde--eh?
Then well done, Delagardes! They say your father was the first man killed.

We won't forget that, my lad." Sinking down upon the base of the statue, Ranulph did not stir or reply, and the officer, thinking he was grieving for his father, left him alone.
ELEVEN YEARS AFTER.