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 thirty thousand men left who had had this wonderful experience, who had seen, as it were, the opening of the heavens and the shining of the hosts of the Lord; who could testify that there need be no fear for our dear England, since the Company of Heaven fought for us.

''Never shall I believe that these thirty thousand witnesses could keep silence and secrecy in such a cause. Yet if they had spoken, nay, if but a thousand, if but a hundred of them had spoken, who can doubt that their testimony would have gone like a forest-flame from end to end of all the armies, till the trenches and the camps burned and glowed with the fervency and the triumph of such a witness.''

And yet my friend—I have his letter in the original envelope with the Censor's pale magenta stamp upon it—had not heard a word of it all, not a hint, not a whisper, nothing.