CHAPTER XL 
HOME ONCE MORE, AND RETURN TO AFRICA. 
/^\ H ! how glad I shall be to see you once more. 
I I The time will soon pass away now, and we ’ll 
meet at Euston or some other London ter- 
minus, and get a cabby, and try to talk while 
noisily rattling over the London streets, and if we 
can’t hear each other, we’ll look at one another. 
That ’ll be a great deal after nearly six years ; ” thus 
wrote Mr. Comber to his father. It was in the middle 
of January, 1885, when his ardent desires for fellow- 
ship with dear ones at home were at length gratified. 
The welcome accorded him, not simply by those of 
his own more immediate circle, but by ‘‘troops of 
friends,” was most refreshing to his spirit. Many 
individuals throughout the country had followed his 
heroic career with prayerful interest, and had deeply 
felt for him in his great personal sorrow and in the 
repeated losses which had overtaken the Mission. 
It was not surprising, therefore, that he should receive 
numerous assurances, both privately and publicly, of 
sincere appreciation and of tender sympathy. 
He had scarcely, however, been in the home country 
more than a month, before the gladness of this 
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