You have the Victoria Cross and can do very well without a bar, so give someone else the chance.

My wife and Bertha send their love." Two or three of his other letters were from friends in regiments at home bewailing their hard fortune at being out of the fighting.

The last he opened bore the latest postmark.

It was from his solicitor, and enclosed Marshall's cancelled bill.
"Of course, as you requested me to give 300 pounds for the enclosed, I did so, but by the way in which Morrison jumped at the offer I believe that he would have been glad to have taken half that sum." Mallett had gone into his tent to open his letters in quiet.

He presently went to the entrance, and catching sight of Marshall called him up.
"I have managed that affair for you, Marshall," he said; "and have arranged it in a way that I am sure will be satisfactory to us both.