Chapter XXIV UNDER THE FLAG OF ENGLAND
"Whose flag has braved a thousand years
The battle and the breeze."
—T. Campbell.
"Mr. Grayson, you are young yet," said the venerable missionary, Dr. Sandeman to the grey-haired, toil-worn man before him.
"Do I look young?" John Grayson answered. "No, I am old—old. The last year has done for me the work of other men's three score and ten."
"I know what you have seen and suffered."
"It has not been all suffering," Jack said. "I have lived. I have tasted the wine of life as well as the poison. I have loved, and been beloved."
"I know," the missionary said again; and he spoke the truth—he knew. "But there are many years before you yet. For them all, that love will be a memory."