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.