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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