And now I will ring down the curtain. For Jim Denver the black and white have gone; even the grey of the Land of Topsy Turvy is hazy and indistinct. The guns are silent: the men and the women are—sane.
The shepherd is out of sight amongst the trees; the purple is changing to grey, the grey to black; there is no sound saving only the tireless murmur of the river....
THE END
Transcriber's Notes:
Herman Cyril McNeile was an officer in the Royal Engineers who published under the pseudonym "Sapper".
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Hyphen added: "bed[-]rock" (p. 303).
Hyphen removed: "ward[-]room" (p. 167), "sand[-]bags" (p. 188), "stock[-]broker" (p. 265).
The following words are inconsistently hyphenated but have not been changed: "dug[-]out", "half[-]way", "sand[-]bags", "sign[-]post", "super[-]human", "table[-]cloth".