| [I.] | Portraits |
| [II.] | Diplomacy |
| [III.] | The Tower of Babel |
| [IV.] | A Business Man in the Army |
| [V.] | The Story of Private Biggs |
| [VI.] | An Air Raid |
| [VII.] | Love and the Infant Dundas |
| [VIII.] | A Great Chef |
| [IX.] | Prélude à la Soirée d'un Général |
| [X.] | Private Brommit's Conversion |
| [XI.] | Justice |
| [XII.] | Variations |
| [XIII.] | The Cure |
| [XIV.] | The Beginning of the End |
| [XV.] | Danse Macabre |
| [XVI.] | The Glory of the Garden |
| [XVII.] | Letter from Colonel Parker to Aurelle |
| [XVIII.] | General Bramble's Return |
GENERAL BRAMBLE
CHAPTER I
PORTRAITS
"As to what the picture represents, that depends upon who looks at it."—Whistler.
The French Mission in its profound wisdom had sent as liaison officer to the Scottish Division a captain of Dragoons whose name was Beltara.
"Are you any relation to the painter, sir?" Aurelle, the interpreter, asked him.
"What did you say?" said the dragoon. "Say that again, will you? You are in the army, aren't you? You are a soldier, for a little time at any rate? and you claim to know that such people as painters exist? You actually
admit the existence of that God-forsaken species?"
And he related how he had visited the French War Office after he had been wounded, and how an old colonel had made friends with him and had tried to find him a congenial job.
"What's your profession in civilian life, capitaine?" the old man had asked as he filled in a form.