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So far Cameron had not had a scratch, and the men had come to think he had a charmed life More than he kneas beloved of the into a kind of awe They felt he had a poith him that they understood not He was still the silent corporal He talked not at all of his new-found experience, yet it shone in his face in a ht with that stricken look, there was above it all a glory behind his eyes that not even that could change For three days he went into the thick of the battle,from one hairbreadth escape to another with the calel who knows his life is not of earth, and on the fourth day there cale for a position that had been held by the enenable froht bravely andunscathed froht, Corporal Cameron on the lead in fearlessness and spirit; and when the tide at last was turned and they stood triu in disorder, it was Cameron as still in the forefront, his white face and tattered unifor sun

Later when the survivors had all coether one came to the captain with a white face and anxious eyes: "Captain, where's Cao and volunteered to slip through the enee," he said in husky tones

"But, captain, he ounded!"

"He was?" The captain looked up startled "He said nothing about it!"

"He wouldn't, of course," said the soldier "He's that way But he ounded in the arm I helped him bind it up"

"How bad?"

"I don't know He wouldn't let ot back"

"Well, he's taken a wireless in his pocket and crept across No Man's Land to find out what the ene a dead Jerry's uniform----!"

The captain turned and brushed the back of his hand across his eyes and a low sound between a sob and a whispered cheer went up froe to their comrade