TO
“MY BEST FRIENDS”

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Across the Space	3
II.	Headlines	17
III.	No Anaesthetic	31
IV.	Nobody to Say a Prayer	48
V.	Plain as a Pikestaff	63
VI.	High Lights	80
VII.	Rather a Big Thing	99
VIII.	Spendthrifts	117
IX.	“Burn, Fire, Burn!”	134
X.	A Shifting of Honours	153
XI.	A Long April Night	174
XII.	Everybody Plots	192
XIII.	A Great Gash	212
XIV.	Something to Remember	233
XV.	Quicksilver in a Tube	255
XVI.	The Altar of His Purpose	276
XVII.	No Other Way	291
XVIII.	At Four in the Morning	307
XIX.	A Scarlet Feather	328
XX.	A Happy Warrior	341
XXI.	A Peal of Bells	354
XXII.	In His Name	370
XXIII.	The Town Was Empty Before	376