The daily Alaskan., 1915-04-28

Germans fire was so murderous that his comrades. reaching q depression i1
 the earth, dropped while myriads of all sorts of missiles passed over them. | Then re-entOrcements came, passed on
 and were driven back to the allies
 trenches, leaving their dead and
 wounded behind them.
 That night Glover lay on the battle
 field. Now and again the glare of
 searchlightS fell on objects about him,
 giving ghaStly hue to everything and
 intensifying that on the faces of his dead and wounded companions. To-
 ward morning there was a Hull in the | firing of cannon, and after daylight | another dash was made from the all
 lies lines, and the ground captured was
 held long enough to remove some of
 the wounded. But Glover was not among the number,
 l During the day many things were | running through his brain, among others his words to the gentleman who | had ridden with him in the cab from | Oxford circus to Downing street. The
 wounded man remembered the flip pant way in which he had spoken of war and the experience it would give him. Experience, Call it rather ! taste of inferno.
 During the day the field on which Glover waS lying Was fought over. being lost and retuken by each side 1 half dozen times. On one of these advances by the English he was car ricd back tu their trenches and in due time sent to En-iand with load of wounded comrades. Arriving in Lon. don he waS placed in q hospital where his life hung in the balance for awhile; then he began slowly to mend
 One of lhp StrangcSt features of war k that our who has experienced its SulrYiu@% and its trrrors when out of il hHS au UurumrUerablr desire to get har!i to it again. Though Glover was aS cumlortah'r aS a wounded man could br made. though he received ire qucnt visits frum his sweetheart, he Was constantly making inquiries of the SUr"ruu> HS 10 how soon he would be able Co return tO the front.
 One umruiug he was told that dur ing the day the hospital would be hon Urrd by a visit from member of the cabinet Thinking it about time he tidlrl himself up. he asked his nurse for a ha$iu in which to wash his hands aud ru,r. and when the barber came to uaEr his daily round Glover re. rcfvcd the first shave since he was wuUulrI
 At g u'cIorH in the afternoon there wu> a stir among the attendants, the danr of lhr ward in which Glover was lying wa~ thrown open. aid d tall man with h.ark mutarhr attended by a uumHrr of uutrers and citizens entered. Adyuriu- lu the nearest cot, he spoke d few words 10 tue invalid, then went down the aisle between the beds, ad- dressing a word here and word there. l.l, he reached Glover, The Canadian looked at him, feeling sure that he had seen him before Then il flashed upon him that he was tue man who had ridden with hiIa in u cab when he was seeing the sights of London.
 By this time Glover hud learned the difference between u private and an officer and the difference between a suDaltrru and general. While the stranger was advancing he had asked who he Was aud was told that he was Lord Kitchener secretary for war and acknowledged 10 be the greatest living organizer of an army. Glover, remem- brrin. how he had talked familiarity with one SO far above him in rank, would have pulled the covers up over his face 10 avoid recognition. but he realized that this would not be allow able. The secretary for war approach ed his bedside, spoke tO him and passed on He had bccu loo prcoccupied by the mighty task before him when rid ing in tine cab iu GIover's company to recognize him on meeting him again Glover wns more thankful than if he had missed an exploding shell
 Nul long after this Glover was in formed that he wHS to Je discharged from the service un account of disabil- ity. He was aS much diSgruntled as his hanccc waS pleased AS soon as he vas well enough he was removed to her home. where he received her constant attention. He had spoken 10 her of having met one who knew her. but she could not identify the person by his description He was so em- barrasSrd at having conyerSed famiI- iarly with the secretary for war that Ee could not bring himself 10 tell her of the episode. Al any rate, he put off doing so
 As soon as Glover was as well as he would ever be-he'd lost an arm-a wedding day was fixed for his and Gladys marriage. One day when the pair were shopping together in London they met on the street the man who had shared a cab with GlOver-in other words. the secretary for war He stop ped to speak to Gladys and to tell her that he was sorry he had not the time