I think I grew rather popular in my role of the seeker after truth, the honest colonial who was against the war by instinct and was looking for instruction in the matter.

They regarded me as a convert from an alien world of action which they secretly dreaded, though they affected to despise it.

Anyhow they talked to me very freely, and before long I had all the pacifist arguments by heart.

I made out that there were three schools.

One objected to war altogether, and this had few adherents except Aronson and Weekes, C.O., now languishing in Dartmoor.