ey doing?"

"Farlow's in Gallipoli and Graham's in France!..."

"Oh, this dreadful war," Mullally exclaimed, wrinkling his features.
"I'm greatly opposed to it. I've been addressing meetings on the
subject!"

"Have you?" Henry asked with more interest than he had previously shown.

"Yes, I'm totally opposed to it. All this secret diplomacy and race for
armaments ... that's at the bottom of it all. My dear Quinn, some
members of the Cabinet have shares in armament works. It's easy enough
to see why we're at war!..."

Henry could not prevent himself from laughing.

"Do you mean to say you think they got up the war on purpose so's to get
bigger dividends on their armament shares?"

Mullally shrugged his shoulders. "I don't wish to impute motives," he
said. "No, I should not care to do that. I believe in the good
intentions of my fellow man, but all the same, it's very peculiar. It
looks bad!..."

"You always were a bloody fool, Mullally, and you're a bloodier one now.
Good afternoon!" said Henry, turning to look at the train which was now
entering the station.

He hurried to secure a carriage, and while he was settling his bag on
the rack, he heard the voice of Mullally bleating in his ear.

"I'm going to Exeter, too," he said. "I'll just get in with you. I have
a third class ticket, but if they ask for the excess, I can pay it!"

"Oh, damn!" said Henry to himself.

5

"I can understand the difficulty you have in believing that people could
behave so ... so basely," Mullally said, as the train carried them out
of Salisbury.

"I don't believe it at all," Henry answered, "and I think that any one
who does believe it is a malicious-minded ass!"

"But they hold the shares ... you can see the list of shareholders at
Somerset House for yourself ... and they'll take the profits. I'm quite
willing to believe in the goodness of the average man ... in fact, I've
denounced the doctrine of Original Sin very forcibly before now ... but
I must say that there's something very suspicious about this business.
Very suspicious. And you know some of the soldiers are really
rather!..."

"Rather what?" said Henry.

"Well, I don't like saying anything about anybody, but some of them are
not all that they should be. They should set an example, and they don't.
I've heard some very startling things about the behaviour of the
soldiers. Very startling things. I don't want to say anything that may
sound unpleasant, but I sugge