"There's three of our men out there behind that patch of bush," said the man, pointing to a morsel of cover—grass and bu«h about two feet in height, away three hun dred yards nearer to the Boers." "I was the fourth," he went on. 'Two of 'em's dead, worse luck, and the other, Mr Aylsham, is badly wounded. Hβ wants help. 1 couldn't carry him. It's as much an I could do to crawl myself." The man put his hand to his neck, as if to check the blood that ran from him, and then suddenly fainted. Glenny crept up to him, tied up his wrtftnd as well as possible, and gave him half the brandy and water in his flask. While he did this, many things surged through his mind. He hated the man Ayl sham. Wo he bound to help him? Yes, surely for the sake of his country, the cause ho was fighting for, and, too, for Violet's sake. The conclusion was irresistible ill the mind of run honest man. Hβ smiled grimly to himself, at the idea of risking his own life to save this man's for Violet. "Get this chap somehow to the real , , as quickly as you can manage it." lie said to some of his" men, indicating the wounded volunteer who had now -regained conscious ness. "I must go and get that other fellow in. Who'll come. I want one man!" A sergeant spoke. "It's madness, sir. You can't do it. You'll bo riddled before you get there. It's a bare live hundred yards from the enemy there, firing at us!" "It must be done," returned Glenny grimly, "who'll come?" A strong, fair-haired fellow of five and twenty, looked up, wiped the streaming sw«at from his face with a very dirty iug, and said with a smile: "I'll come, sir." They went, crawling, crawling over that deadly tihree hundred yards of .-almost bare veldt.' The Boers presently spotted them, and bullets began to fly thick about them. Two hundred and fifty yards in safety, and then the brave faLr-headed volunteer gave a short, choking sound, his (head dropped, he lav limp and lifeless upon the red soil. A bullet htffl gone clean through liis brain. Glenny reacbeu the patch of cover with m> more injury than a graze on the shouldei and two or three 'iio.es through his ebirt. 