LAND & WATER 
July 6, 1916 
knows what else. It's not a place for respectable people, 
hut the ends of the earth converge there and no questions are 
iisked. That's the best spot 1 can think of for a mseting 
place." 
The kettle was simmering by the fire, the night was raw, 
and it seemed the hour for whisky-punch. I made a brew for 
Sandy and myself and boiled some milk for Blenkiron. 
" \'\'hat about language," I asked. " You're all right, 
Sandy ? " 
" Iknow German fairly well ; and I can pass anywhere as 
a Turk. Tlie first will do for eavesdropping and the second 
for ordinary' business." 
■' Afid you ? " I asked Blfnkiron. 
" 1 was loft out at Pentecost," he said. " I regret to 
confess 1 have no gift of tongues. But the part I have 
chosen for myself don't require the polyglot. Never forget 
I'm plain John S. Blenkiron, a citizen of the great American 
republic." 
" You haven't told us your own Hne, Dick," said Sandy. 
" I am going to the Bosporus through Germany, and, not 
being a neutral, it won't be a very cushioned journey." 
Sandv looked grave. 
" That sounds pretty desperate. Is your German good 
enough ? " 
" Pretty fair, quite good enough to pass as a native. 
But officially I shall not understand one word. I shall be a 
Boer from Western Cape Colony, one of Maritz's old lot 
who after a bit of trouble has got through Angola and reached 
Europe. I shall talk Dutch and nothing else. And my hat ! 
I shall be pretty bitter about the British. There's a power- 
ful lot of good swear-words in the Taal. I shall know all 
about .\frica and be panting to get another whack at the 
verdommt rouinek. \Vith luck they may send me to the 
Uganda show or to Egypt, and I shall take care to go by 
Constantinople. If I'm to deal with Mohammedan natives 
they're bound to show me what hand they hold. At least 
that's the way I look at it." 
We filled our glasses^two of punch and one of milk — and 
drank to our next merry meeting. Then Sandy began to 
laugh, and I joined in. The sense of hopeless folly again 
descended on me. The best plans we could make were hke a 
few buckets of water to ease the drought of the Sahara or 
the old lady who would have stopped the Atlantic with a 
broom. 1 thought with sympathy of little Saint Theresa. 
i^To he continued) 
YPRES 
FROM THE WATER-COLOUR DRAWING 
BY 
W. L. WYLLIE, R.A. 
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armies have withstood ever since October 1914 the 
overwhelming attacks of the Germans. 
Where once there were peaceful villages, rich 
pasture, and golden harvest fields, nothing now 
remains but desolate ruins and shell craters, surrounded 
on all sides by tall rank grass, through which wind 
the battered trenches. 
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