Where is Ali Beg? Here! And Nagy? Here, too!!
Wheel our cots together, ma’am!
Only let me clasp her hand again. Thanks; it is warm; she is alive!
No; we won’t go up-country again. Why? Because when our first child comes, I want it born outside—out from under the shadow of the dread Curse of Siva!
[THE FATHER’S HAND]
By G. HUMPHREY
From The Bookman
Copyright, 1918, by Dodd, Mead, and Company.
Copyright, 1919, by George Humphrey.
The Dean and I were sitting after dinner discussing the shortage of students at Oxford since the war began.