The stupefied Germans were horror-struck. Seven thousand fresh and lusty warriors struck terror into their hearts. And those bayonets! Well, who wouldn’t run! They fled like hares on a frosty morning, pursued by the yelling and stabbing multitude. The slow-footed fell in hundreds. But on pressed the Mixed Division. Over their original line they charged to a great and glorious victory. The counter-attack had won the day. Just as the battle ended, "Sunny Jim" dashed up in his motor-car. News of the victory had cheered him, but he was anxious to learn the fate of the Glesca Mileeshy. As the car neared Colonel Corkleg’s position, he was received with a cheer from a hundred men. "Good God, colonel—is that all that’s left to you?" said the general quietly, looking on the living, then at the piled-up dead. "Yes, sir," said Corkleg, with a catch in his voice, as he tried to salute. The strain and an awful bayonet wound in the shoulder had drained much of his blood. He collapsed at the general’s feet. "Never mind me, doctor," he whispered in a weak voice to the surgeon who had jumped to his side. "Look after Sergeant Tamson." "Who, sir?" "The man who saved me," said the colonel, trying to point to the prostrate form of Spud, who lay almost lifeless on the top of some dead Germans. Then closing his eyes he swooned away, muttering, "Useful man—useful man." Spud Tamson was found living, yet seriously wounded. He had been bayoneted in the chest while gallantly rescuing his colonel from a band of lusty Bavarians. "Save him if you can, for he has earned the V.C.," said the adjutant to the doctor as Spud was lifted into the motor ambulance. "Oh, he’ll live all right," was the cheerful reply as the motor started on its way. And live he did. The whole Empire cried "Well done," and all the world wondered at this hero from the slums. A CONVENTIONAL FINISH. EXTRACT FROM THE PRESS. _Marriages_.—At the residence of Colonel Corkleg, C.B., by the Rev. Father Murphy, Sergeant Spud Tamson, V.C., The Glesca Mileeshy, to Mary Ann M’Ginnes, daughter of Patrick M’Ginnes, The Gallowgate, Glasgow. THE END. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS. Blackwoods’ SHILLING Editions of Popular Novels. Bound in Cloth. With Coloured Illustration on Wrapper. - "_Q_" (_Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch_). - HOCKEN AND HUNKEN. - _JOHN BUCHAN_. - THE WATCHER BY THE THRESHOLD. - THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS. - _Captain R. W. CAMPBELL_. - PRIVATE SPUD TAMSON. - "_BARTIMEUS_." - NAVAL OCCASIONS. - _BEATRICE HARRADEN_. - SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT. - _NEIL MUNRO_. - THE DAFT DAYS. - FANCY FARM. - _IAN HAY_. - "PIP": _A Romance of Youth_. - THE RIGHT STUFF. - A MAN’S MAN. - A SAFETY MATCH. - HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. - _MAUD DIVER_. - CAPTAIN DESMOND, V.C. - THE GREAT AMULET. - CANDLES IN THE WIND. WM. BLACKWOOD & SONS, _Edinburgh and London_.