It was wonderful what the mention of the C.-in-C.

did for one!).

He gave me my slip for the hospital: "Herewith Major Orpen, suffering from scabies.

Please...." and with this I departed for Amiens, where I reported to the Colonel of the X---- Hospital.

Over a whisky-and-soda I gave him the "slip," and he looked at my arm and said, "Yes, scabies," and I was put into the isolation ward and treated for this disease.