CHAPTER XXV 



Fresh Work The Staff Corps and Indian Army Fund Blair 

 Athol (the book) The Whitehall Review Edward Legge 

 My First Mentor in Journalism I attract Willoughby May- 

 cock Death of Lord Beaconsfield Gladstonian Disasters 

 Mrs Langtry Belt v. Lawes Great Scene in Court I 

 make Belt's Acquaintance Friends from that Day 

 Iroquois and Pincus End of the old Whitehall Review 

 I start St Stephen's Review 



LONG before the period I am dealing with I had been 

 writing odds and ends for the Press, without any 

 idea of being paid for such work. " The Tale of a 

 Horse " appeared in The Sporting Times, before I was 

 married, as also did "The Sport of Shooting" in The 

 Bird of Freedom, another of John Corlett's papers. I 

 now began to write a book, Blair Athol, and also took on 

 a job as secretary to the Staff Corps and Indian Army 

 Fund, which necessitated minute knowledge of all the 

 many rules and regulations relative to the Pensions 

 and Retirement of officers in the Indian Military Service, 

 as well as the Furlough and Leave Rules. Somehow this 

 work suited me well, and it may perhaps be best described 

 by the letter which the late General Spence was good 

 enough to write after the objects of the movement had 

 been attained, and my occupation was at an end : 



30 COLVILLE TERRACE, 

 BAYS WATER. 



22nd May, 1882. 



v 

 The Staff Corps and Indian A rmy Fund for procuring a 



revision of Pension and Retirement Regulations 

 The Committee of the above Fund having closed their pro- 

 ceedings and adjourned sine die, it remains for me, as their 

 Chairman, to discharge the pleasing duty of noting the able and 



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