CHAPTER VII.
LORD KITCHENER _"I never knew a man so fixed upon doing what he considered his duty."_--CROKER PAPERS.
Soon after he had taken his chair at the War Office, Lord Kitchener received a call from Mr.Lloyd George.

The politician had come to urge the appointment of denominational chaplains for all the various sects represented in the British Army.
Lord Kitchener was opposed to the idea, which seemed to him irregular, unnecessary, and expensive, involving a waste of transport, rations, and clerks' labour.

But Mr.Lloyd George stuck to his sectarian guns, and was so insistent, especially in respect of Presbyterians, that at last the Secretary of State for War yielded in this one case.

He took up his pen rather grudgingly and growled out, "Very well: you shall have a Presbyterian." Then one of his awkward smiles broke up the firmness of his bucolic face.

"Let's see," he asked; "Presbyterian ?--how do you spell it ?" This was one of his earliest adventures with politicians, and he ended it with a sly cut at unorthodoxy.