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 liATTI.r. OF Tin: alma. liiT) galloping up. Of au actual (irder General Airey ciiAT. wsiS not the bearer; but he was a man whose '. — . loyalty towards his chief made him always feel a™' certain that what he himself saw clearly to be <^°'"" up- right was exactly what his chief desired to have done ; and the result was, that in an emergency he was able to speak with a weight which virtu- ally brought to bear upon the matter in hand the whole power of Headquarters. His keen eye had detected the halt of the 1st Division, and he saw also that the Light Division was pushing forward at a run. Another man would have gone round or sent to the commander of the forces for his opinion ; but every moment of the lapsing time was bringing danger. General Airey rode straight up to General Ben- ui.s exposi- ^ - .^, , tion of tin; tinck* and explained it to be Lord Kaglans order to ^ 1 1 T • 1 advance in meaning that the 1st Division should instantly suniort. continue its advance in support of the Light Division. 'Must we,' asked Bentinck — 'must ' we always keep within three hundred yards of ' the Light Division ?' ' No,' said Airey, ' not ne- ' cessariiy at any fixed distance ; that would not ' be possible. AVhat His Ptoyal Highness has to ' do is to support the Light Division by advanc- ' ing in conformity with its movements.' At this moment the Duke of Cambridge rode up, and to him Airey repeated it to be Lord Eaglan's mean- the bearer of an order for a divisional general should deliver it to the first brigadier whom he haj)pened to find, to be hy him transmitted to the divisional chief.
 * Lord Raglan had made an order .specially providing that