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 at midnight, Nalson, for I know ut's you, come back to the verandah.'

Nalson, detected, slunk back to his fellows. There was a grumble that died away in a minute or two, and Terence turning on the other side went on:—

'That was the last I saw av Larry for a while. Exchange is the same as death for not thinkin', an' by token I married Dinah, an' that kept me from remimberin' ould times. Thin we went up to the Front, an' ut tore my heart in tu to lave Dinah at the Depét in Pindi. Consequint, whin I was at the Front | fought circumspectuous till I warrmed up, an' thin I fought double tides. You remember fwhat I tould you in the gyard-gate av the fight at Silver's Theatre?'

' Wot's that about Silver's Theayter?' said Ortheris quickly, over his shoulder.

'Nothin', little man, A tale that ye know. As I was sayin', afther that fight, us av the Ould Rig'mint an' the Tyrone was all mixed together takin' shtock av the dead, an' av coorse I wint about to find if there was any man that remembered me. The second man I came acrost—an' how I'd missed him in the fight 1 do not know—was Larry, an' a fine man he looked, but oulder, by reason that he had fair call to be. " Larry," sez I, " how is ut wid you?"


 * «Ye're callin' the wrong man," he sez, wid his gentleman's smile, " Larry has been dead these three years. They call him ' Love-o'-Women' now," he sez. By that I knew the ould divil was in him yet, but the ind av a fight is no time for the beginnin' av confession, so we sat down an' talked av times.


 * They tell me you're a married man," he sez, puffin' slow at his poipe. "Are ye happy?"