We had Sandy, our baby, left, and we managed to go on.

But Sandy was a soldier too, and when the Boer War broke out, of course he had to go.

I knew when I said good-bye to him that whoever came back it wouldn't be my laddie.

He was too shining-eyed, too much all that was young and innocent and brave to win through....

Archie and Jock were men, capable, well equipped to fight the world, but Sandy was our baby--he was only twenty....