He had the tubes in his luggage, and one box of them he took that morning to Commandant Marnier at his office on the left bank of the river with the letter which gave warning of their arrival.
"You see what the letter says," Hillyard explained.

"These tubes have been very successful in France." Marnier nodded his head: "If you will leave them with me, I will show them to our chemists, and perhaps, in a few days, I will have news for you." For a week Hillyard took his ease in Paris and was glad of the rest in the midst of those strenuous days.

He received one morning at his hotel, a batch of letters, many of which had been written months before.

But two were of recent date.

Henry Luttrell wrote to him: "_My battalion did splendidly and our debt to old Oakley is great.