"It all comes back to me. We were travelling to London—Frank and I, Jack—and our coach broke down as we left a cricket match. Sir Godfrey Fanshawe was good enough to give us beds for the night, and we had gone but a few miles on the road next morning when we were pulled up by a fallen tree, and in a trice were looking down the muzzles of half-a-dozen horse pistols. I had sent some of my young men ahead to arrange a change of horses; the others bolted, and there we were in the midst of the gang. ’Twas an uncommonly tight place; Frank, always handy with his pistol, got in a shot, but in another half-minute we should have been stripped or worse when there came from the wall at our left a wild hullabaloo worse than a dozen Thames bargemen touting for a fare. The rascals turned tail and bolted; over the wall sprang a man and a boy, and egad, I remember now how I laughed when they told me they’d done the trick betwixt ’em. ’Twas a rare flam. And the boy——" "I think, my lord——" began Harry, feeling somewhat uncomfortable; but Marlborough, setting his glass down on the table, bent forward and interrupted. "Egad, Godolphin, you bring things back to me. The boy—we were always going to do something for him. He found his way to the Low Countries, and showed himself a lad of mettle. I came across him once or twice; noted him—for the second time, by the way—for an ensigncy, and found that he was already a cornet in a Dutch regiment. He did well with Eugene, I believe. Rochester—that was his name—Harry Rochester. I wonder what became of him! Certainly he owed nothing to patronage—yours or mine. Wasn’t he the son of the parson here? Mr. Berkeley, has he ever revisited these parts? ’Pon my soul, I should like to meet him again." "I was about to explain, your grace, that—I am that Harry Rochester." * * * * * * * * *A Selection from the Catalogue of* *G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS* *Complete Catalogues sent on application* *The Light Brigade in Spain* *or* *The Last Fight of Sir John Moore* *By Herbert Strang* Author of "Tom Burnaby," etc. With a Preface by Lieut.-Col. WILLOUGHBY VERNER. Illustrated by William Rainey, R.I. 12mo. $1.50 "In ’Boys of the Light Brigade’ Mr. Strang draws upon the resources of the Peninsular War, and succeeds in extracting much freshness from well-worn themes, as Moore’s retreat to Corunna and the heroic defence of Saragossa. The personal interest of the story is kept at a high tension.... It is a book which no boy will be able to put down when once started. The volume is provided with excellent maps and plans of the scenes in which the incidents take place."—_The Standard_.