I shall grow up some day.' A few days later the Squire came back from Fallerton to find nobody in the house, apparently, but himself.

He went through the empty hall and the library, and shut himself up there.

He carried an evening paper crumpled in his hand.

It contained a detailed report of the breaking of the Portuguese centre near Richebourg St.Vaast on April 10, and the consequent retreat, over some seven miles, since that day of the British line, together with the more recent news of the capture of Armentieres and Merville.

Sitting down at his own table he read the telegrams again, and then in the stop-press Sir Douglas Haig's Order of the Day-- '_There is no other course open to us but to fight it out.