Monsieur et Madame, si vous désiriez d’autres renseignements, je me ferais un devoir de vous les donner, et c’est avec plaisir que je vous donnerai tous les renseignements possibles. Recevez, Monsieur et Madame, mes respectueuses salutations. Votre dévoué serviteur, MICHEL PLAA PORTE, _Mécanicien Escadrille, N. 124, Secteur 16_. [Illustration: _Cover of a French Periodical_] IV FROM HIS FATHER Memories of my younger son Norman are so tender and fragrant that his bereaved father may well feel some hesitation in recording them for publication lest they may seem to those who never enjoyed intimate relations with him to have been inspired by absorbing parental pride and affection rather than by less partial and disinterested judgment. If there may be any warrant for this impression it will be readily allowed that the sacrifice of this young life in a great cause and the commingled pride and sorrow occasioned by such a martyrdom furnish adequate occasion for the warmest eulogy. To know Norman well was to love him and admire his fine traits of mind, heart, and soul. I hardly know when our real companionship began. When he was yet a little boy, just emerging from the nursery, Norman was wise and resourceful beyond his young years. He was always reading and he was persistently inquiring about things worth knowing. His youthful self-reliance is amusingly illustrated by an incident when he was but about eleven years of age. He asked for a private tutor to teach him Latin, and he felt so sure of the kind of an instructor he wanted that he took upon himself the somewhat responsible task of obtaining one without advice or assistance. Having found one willing to accept the position Norman at once proceeded to put him through a preliminary examination to test his professional capacity. [Illustration: _Norman Prince, Frederick Henry Prince, Jr., Frederick Henry Prince_]