ong, she asked him to sing it over
to her, and to repeat three times the last verse, which was as
follows:--

Time and place will cease to know you,
Men and things will pass away;
You'll be moving on to-morrow,
You are only here to-day.

Little did either of them imagine how terribly the words were to be
verified within four hours of their being sung.

Just as she was leaving her place in one carriage, to go to the sleeping
berth prepared for her in another, a tremendous crash announced to all
the passengers that the car through which she and one of our Officers
were passing had left the rails and been destroyed. Both were buried in
the debris. The Colonel (Holland) survived, but Mrs. Booth-Tucker, after
lingering in unconsciousness a couple of hours, passed away.

What a blow for The General! He wrote at the end of the year: "This has
been, is, and will be, to the end of my earthly chapter, a mysterious
and painful dispensation--at least, so it appears at the moment. What
God may do for me in the future, and how He may make it work for my good
does not at present appear. But He is able to make it mightily helpful
to His glory, and the Salvation of souls. With this prospect, God
forbid, then, that I should be other than content--nay, filled with
praise. I am at present strangely supported and cheered; and not
strangely either, for is it not what might have been expected, with so
many loving prayers going up to Heaven on my account hour by hour."

Remembering that he had lost not only the most tenderly beloved one left
to him, but an Officer holding one of the most important posts he had to
fill, we can somewhat estimate the grace that could thus sustain him,
and make it possible, even then, to go gladly forward!

Yet again he was to drink the bitter cup of family bereavement, this
time affecting his youngest daughter, who had married Commissioner
Hellberg, already mentioned as one of our first Swedish Officers.

Not only had he kept all the promise of his first brave and sturdy stand
for The Army as a student, but, gaining by every year's experience in
various lands, he had shown remarkable ability in many spheres.

With his no less able and devoted wife, he had laboured in India, at
International Headquarters, in France and in Switzerland, when
consumption, alas! showed itself, and, in spite of all that could be
done for him, during years of suffering, in Algiers, and in various
resorts of