l."

"Never mind, here's the Sergeant. Good evening! Very fine thing! Very
fine thing indeed! I see rapid promotion in his profession for that
young man."

"Inspector, eh?" said the doctor.

"Yes, Sir, I should without hesitation recommend him and should be only
too pleased to have him as Inspector in my command."

It was not, however, as Inspector that Corporal Cameron served under the
gallant Superintendent, but in another equally honourable capacity did
they ride away together one bright April morning a few weeks later, on
duty for their Queen and country. But that is another story.

"That message ought to be delivered, nurse," said the doctor
thoughtfully.

"But not at once," replied the nurse.

"It is important," urged the doctor.

"Yes, but--there are other things."

"Ah! Other things?"

"Yes, equally--pressing," said the nurse with an undeniably joyous
laugh. The doctor looked at her a moment.

"Ah, nurse," he said in a shocked tone, "how often have I deprecated
your tendency to--"

"I don't care one bit!" laughed the nurse saucily.

"The message ought to be delivered," insisted the doctor firmly as he
moved toward the tent door.

"Well, deliver it then. But wait!" The little nurse ran in before him
and called "Nu-u-u-r-s-e Ha-l-ey!"

"All right!" called Cameron from the inside. "Come in!"

"Go on then," said the little nurse to the doctor, "you wanted to."

"A message from the Superintendent," said the doctor, lifting the
curtain and passing in.

"Don't move, Mandy," said Cameron. "Never mind him."

"No, don't, I beg," said the doctor, ignoring what he saw. "A message,
an urgent message for--Corporal Cameron!"

"CORPORAL Cameron?" echoed Nurse Haley.

"He distinctly said and repeated it--Corporal Cameron. And the Corporal
is to report for duty as speedily as possible."

"He can't go," said Mandy, standing up very straight with a light in
her eyes that the doctor had not seen since that tragic night nearly two
years before.

"Can't, eh?" said the doctor. "But the Superintendent says Corporal
Cameron is--"

"Corporal Cameron can't go!"

"You--"

"Yes, I forbid it."

"The Corporal is--?"

"Yes," she said proudly, "the Corporal is mine."

"Then," said the doctor emphatically, "of all the lucky chaps it has
been my fortune to meet, by all the gods the luckiest of them is this
same Corporal Cameron!"

And Cameron, drawing down to him again the girl standing so straight and
pr