Could it be possible that England was about to be crushed under the heel of a foreign tyrant?
If (p.

035) such were to be her fate, death on the battlefield would be easy to bear.
What Briton could endure to live under the yoke or by the permission of a vulgar German autocrat?
On entering the mess one evening I was horrified to read in the orders that Canon Scott was to report immediately for duty to No.

2 General Hospital.

It was a great blow to be torn from the men of the fighting forces.

I at once began to think out a plan of campaign.