"Try and get the commission I threw up," said Alan.
"I thought so, and really I can't blame you; we shall want every man we can get," said Duncan Fraser.
CHAPTER XIII
ALAN IS BLIND
It was about a month later when Alan called at The Forest and found Eve Berkeley alone. Ella was with her father in London; they had accepted her invitation to pay another visit later on. She had been waiting for him, wondering why he did not call. She soon heard the reason.
"I have been awfully rushed," he said. "Lots of things to see to at
Chesney's before I go away."
"Go away!" she exclaimed. "Where are you going? This is rather sudden; I am surprised."
"I have joined the army again. I have been fortunate enough to get a commission as captain. I tried hard to get back in my old regiment, but there was no vacancy. I shall be gazetted to the 'Sherwoods' in a few days; they are at Derby now. There are stirring times ahead, and I'm not sorry. It was bound to some sooner or later."
"What?"
"War."