OF THE SPEAR 

 Meerut for the unknown ills of camp 

 life, but that Jack Austin would be 

 of the party of pig-stickers in whose 

 company she and Edna were to be 

 thrown ? Her dream, which had 

 seemed about to culminate in reality, 

 had been shattered at one blow, and 

 she could scarcely for the moment 

 realise the fact. 



"And the 'Deep C.' too of all 

 people!" This was Major Calvert 

 of the 6th, a dark, handsome, but 

 taciturn man. "Whatever could Edna 

 see in him ? " were points that sug- 

 gested themselves to her mind. 



"But, my dear child," she urged 

 aloud, considerately putting in the 

 second place that which she con- 

 sidered very much in the first, 

 " Major Calvert is so so staid ; and 

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