and was equally
willing for her, later, to go to the United States. But he always kept
up a very full correspondence with her. Her last letter to him, written
on an American train, said:--

"My Precious General,--

"I am still on the wing. We were at St. Louis on Sunday, where we
had, in some respects, a rather remarkable day. The entire feeling
of the city has been distinctly different since your visit--the
sympathy now is most marked.

"I also spoke for 'fifteen minutes' (stretched a little) in the
Merchants Exchange, a huge marble structure. No woman, they say,
has ever been heard there before. This was on Saturday at noon, and
quite a number of the leading business and money men turned up at
Sunday's Meetings.

"Can't write more. How I wonder how you are! Up above us all so
high, like a diamond in our sky, though perhaps I ought to say
cyclone or race-horse, or--but there is no simile fine enough.

"Good-night! Would that you were here, so that I could say it, and
hear all that you would like to say, and then start off again to
try and carry out your wishes with better success, as

"Your unfailing Emma."

Alas, alas, for the uncertainties of human life! Little did she imagine
that before the letter could reach him she would be gone from another
train, for ever from his side.

Her own devotion to the War, from her very childhood, had always been
such as to set an example to all who knew her. As head, for ten years,
of our Training Home for women Officers, she did more than can ever be
known to ensure the purity and excellence of The Army's leaders, so that
it may be easily guessed how much her father valued her.

As joint leader with her husband of our forces in India, and afterwards
in the United States, she never spared herself, but, in spite of
repeated illnesses, and without, in any way, neglecting her duties as
mother of six children, she travelled and laboured incessantly.

Starting out at one o'clock in the morning of October 28th, from
Colorado, to ride to Chicago, she managed to make a rush-call, between
trains, in Kansas City, to view a new building The Army was about to
take as an Industrial Home. Throughout most of the two days' journey,
she was in conversation with one or another Officer as to coming
extension of the work until, finding that Colonel Addie, whose Province
she last passed, had composed a new s