(p.

054) "I'll go back to the shack where the black-eyed Susans," etc., was the song of the moment then in the squadron.
Shortly after this Major Bloomfield was ordered home, promoted and, I think, sent to America.

At this loss, a great gloom fell over the 56th Squadron.

I never saw any squadron in France that was run nearly so well as the 56th under Bloomfield, nor any Major loved more by his boys.
[Illustration: XXII.

_The Return of a Patrol._].