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There was a knock at the door Bray called "Co, entered

"Hello, Walters!" he said, s "What's up? I-"

He stopped suddenly as his eyes fell upon the divan where Fraser-Freer

lay In an instant he was at the dead uish

"Who are you?" deht

"It's the captain's brother, sir," put in Walters "Lieutenant Norman

Fraser-Freer, of the Royal Fusiliers"

There fell a silence

"A great calaan Walters to the boy

I have rarely seen any one so overco

hi between hi He turned away froive hientlemen," said the lieutenant "This has been a

terrible shock! I didn't dream, of course--I just dropped in for a word

with--with hiize, as a true Englishman must, for

his public display of emotion

"I' about

the rooreat need of entlemen, I want to say this: I am the Chief of the